Word: assimilationism
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Choi is right to liken the current University scene to a bazaar, with precious gems and useless junk laid out together indiscriminately. But what he and other traditionalists must recognize is that though relativism (which he somehow mistakenly confuses with "democracy"), is certainly not a good in itself, it is...
From the Philippines to the United States. From San Francisco to New York City. From the '70s to the '80s, from jazz to rock, from lumpia (a Filipino dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a...
The trend of thought voiced by Roth is relative to the definition of what is known under international law as cultural genocide. To make groups of people think and act as Anglophones with no individual or collective will is to take away from them those characteristics that make them human...
This predicament was, perhaps, a product of the historical situation of Asian-Americans, as a population of relatively recent immigrants--though that status, too, became part of the stereotype brought down upon thousands of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps of World War II. For Asian-American activists of the...
Often the saw or caulking mallet falls silent while I listen to that whispering, hearing the view from Paris about how the phrase "Native American" subverts United States immigrant assimilation, the opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from...