Word: assimilationism
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The question also attempts to set the terms of the discussion, to base a discussion of racial conflict solely on African-American xenophobia. Like all litmus tests, this one is reductive and promotes self-defense rather than thought and disclosure. Black anti-Semitism, which does exist, along with any specific...
Minority activists opposed to assimilation have favored unintegrated ethnic studies separate from traditional curricula. Under a mantle of faux-multiculturalism, they advocate curricula dealing with their ethnic and cultural heritages, bolstering their ethnic pride and providing ethnic role models. Sometimes termed "particularistic multiculturalism," these advocates believe "that no common culture...
We toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned...
Many of us forget that Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of Jews who rejected assimilation, and tore down the alien symbols from their temple. Hanukkah is not a holiday that fits well with Master Dowling's vision of "celebrating together," or the quaint image of Hanukkah candles next to a Christmas...
The story is not new. From the time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the...