Word: assimilationism
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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...
Beilin said he opposes intermarriage because it has led to the assimilation of American Jews. But he also said that non-observant Jews--the majority of the Jewish population in the U.S.--have no right to criticize Jews who choose to intermarry.
Five researchers connected with Harvard have won Guggenheim Fellowship grants for a varsity of projects including an examination of the function of regulatory genes and a book on the assimilation of West Indian immigrants in New York City.
Waters will use her prize money while she writes a book based on research she did last summer on the assimilation of West Indian immigrants into New York life.