Word: assimilationism
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Jews were a rarity at St. Paul's when Robert A.M. Stern was growing up in the 1950s, but today Stern's son is an alumnus of the Wasp citadel in Concord, N.H., and Stern has designed its fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits...
Jews were a rarity at St. Paul's when Robert A.M. Stern was growing up in the 1950s, but today Stern's son is an alumnus of the Wasp citadel in Concord, N.H., and Stern has designed its fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits...
Immigrants to America had a different relationship with the past. Most had come to escape it. The irony is that once they settled in America, they could not live without it. Kammen suggests a kind of ethnic American syllogism: the first generation zealously preserves; the second generation zealously forgets; the...
Panelist Vernon A. Rosario, a graduate student who is gay, said his parents--who were troubled by issues of assimilation related to their own Laotian heritage--had difficulty accepting his homosexuality.
"The problems of racism and assimilation in a highly racist society are enormous, and that's something that's totally interconnected with the sexuality issue," Rosario said.