Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Indians, however, also have social and cultural motivations. The severely limited number of jobs in the town has forced many Indians to move off the Island in search of employment, helping to whittle away at the ethnic unity of the Wamponoags and furthering the already rapid process of assimilation...
The time for a profligate assimilation of the world is past or passing. It is now time to begin refining the experiences that life has provided. Had he chosen another line of work, Lowell implies, he might be faced with an involuntary retreat:
THE IRISH are a fair people," Samuel Johnson once said; "They never speak well of one another." To the extent that Corry's book ends with the tragedy of the clan's Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry...
Of the nation's 216 million people, nearly 1 million are descended from the Indian tribes that were sprinkled about the continent when the Europeans first came settling. The Indians, since the confrontation at Wounded Knee in 1890 that marked the end of their serious resistance to the white...
I entered Harvard in September of 1973, the same month that Prof. Kilson launched a slanderous attack against the Afro-American student organization at Harvard for failing to recognize what he called the values of "assimilation," and implying that those students with social awareness are somehow opposed to "academic excellence...