Word: assimilationism
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Even as they stake their claims to the American West, Asians are encountering problems: racism, the ambivalence of assimilation, the perils of prosperity, ethnic jealousies and the sometimes dire inequities of a laissez- faire society. Asians in general are still strangers in the Western paradise, and they are keenly aware...
Asian-Americans reflect a diversity of socioeconomic, historic, educational, ethnic, linguistic and cultural influences. Differences in English proficiency and degree of assimilation further distinguish Asian-Americans from one another. The common influence of Confucianism is almost negligible compared to these differences.
For years, ethnic Turks were subjected to a harsh assimilation policy under which they were forced to adopt Bulgarian names and to speak Bulgarian.
Opposition leaders and Western diplomats say the deep mistrust between nationalist Slavs and ethnic Turks has been fanned since the mid-1980s by Zhivkov's assimilation policy and by anti-Turkish propaganda.
Assimilation does not make women feel at home; it only makes them feel invisible...Plugging more women into what was once an all-male institution and expecting them to conform will only perpetuate those feelings of invisibility. The University should work towards breaking the public silence by giving support and...