Word: assimilationism
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You urge that everybody "assimilate" into this stifling melting pot. Assimilation is a frightening action call for me to digest the ways of someone else and becoming part of an "inherited culture" that does not belong to me.
Assimilation is the last thing I would agree to do in an environment where "non-ethnically defined" (WHITE) people clearly dominate all positions of power. Instead, celebrate with me, if you choose and learn more about my African-Americaness.
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...