Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even more startling, sometime during the second half of the 21st century the descendants of white Europeans, the arbiters of the core national culture for most of its existence, are likely to slip into minority status. "Without fully realizing it," writes Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of policy studies at Washington...
But the process of assimilation, while perhaps a bit more hesitant and stressful than at times in the past, still marches on. It might skip a generation, revealing itself eventually, for instance, in the pure Valleyspeak ; of a young Chinese Californian. More often than ever before, though, assimilation in the...
The huddled masses have already given way to the muddled masses. "Marriage is the main assimilator," says Karen Stephenson, an anthropologist at UCLA. "If you really want to affect change, it's through marriage and child rearing." This is not assimilation in the Eurocentric sense of the word: one nation...
These sentiments recall a judgment voiced in a New York Times editorial: "There is a limit to our powers of assimilation, and when it is exceeded the country suffers from something very like indigestion." That observation was not made recently, however, but in May 1880, when anti-immigrant sentiment was...
This is race talk, the explicit insertion into everyday life of racial signs and symbols that have no meaning other than pressing African Americans to the lowest level of the racial hierarchy. Popular culture, shaped by film, theater, advertising, the press, television and literature, is heavily engaged in race talk...