Word: assimilationism
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But unlike my father, Frank Haddad was fullyassimilated into the mainstream. Scenes with himat a bar and playing football with his son makeclear that "the `good guy' has an Americanlifestyle," Al-Ississ says. "It's good to see thatindeed, Arabs can integrate into American society,but it also has the...
According to McGarry, the crushing of the strong twenties `gay culture drove homosexual relationships underground, keeping them under wraps and subject to harassment by police until the '50s. McCarthy's attempts to weed homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter...
Another contentious issue was the club's image, with members concerned about the tension between assimilation and demonstration. Barrios saw this decision as a "private choice."
One of the famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes...
"In order to have greater assimilation of Chinese-Americans in this country, more leadership is needed--not to take over the country, but to be a greater part of the system," said Ronald S.W. Lew, a United States district judge of the Central District of California and a keynote speaker...