Word: assimilationism
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In past books, such as his 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot, written with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan '66 (D-NY) and his 1975 Affirmative Discrimination, Glazer argued tirelessly for a strong presentation of "distinctly American culture" in school and for the assimilation of different ethnic groups into American society.
Future debate topics may include euthanasia, gun control, multiculturalism and assimilation. Topics are chosen at HPU's Monday meetings.
There's a comforting, Meet Me in St. Louis sweetness in the way this clan faces its small crises. But Uhry adds vinegar in the form of a sharply observed portrait of upper-middle-class Jews in the pre-World War II South. Theirs was a tricky dance of assimilation...
Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter professor of law, warned of the dangers of assimilation and integration to Jewish identity in a speech at the Graduate School of Education last night.
With our school days and our assimilation nearing completion, we've changed our minds about Thoreau more than once, and it's even questionable as to whether a nonconformist is wearing sheep's clothing. Rather than dwelling on that grown-up paradox, think of childhood, when the behavioral variations weren...