Word: assimilationism
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Still they come, despite a dismaying fact: the passage of time has not helped the U.S. to absorb the 120,000 Cuban refugees who have poured in since April. The problem endures stubbornly, disrupting life in Miami and southern Florida in particular, posing special difficulties of assimilation that have baffled...
With The Woman Warrior (1976), Author Maxine Hong Kingston left herself a hard act to follow. That book, her first, indelibly rendered the pain of growing up female and Chinese in the U.S., of being in effect a servant among the dispossessed. It bridged two vastly different cultures; its drawing...
Because Reading Period as a time for review and assimilation is not technically a part of the current calendar, instituting the proposed moratorium would be a change in the academic calendar.
But those breaks in the season are part of the reason some people would dislike the proposed changes. Courses with heavy reading lists require time for assimilation and reflection. Under the current calendar, Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation provide respite in the fall, and spring break and a longer Reading Period...
When she and her family escaped from Vietnam in the mid-seventies, Li felt certain she had left the horrors of her childhood behind her. Like thousands of other refugees from her embattled country, she began a new life in a new land. Attending public school in Dallas, Tex., Li...