Word: assimilationist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hwang, author of the award-winning M. Butterfly, said his early plays were influenced by the growing ethnic awareness on college campuses in the 1970s. But he said he shifted from the largely assimilationist model of F.O.B. to a more "nationalist-isolationist phase" in such works as Dance on the Railroad and Family Devotions, searching instead for a specifically Asian content and form...
...whose fractured syntax includes the news that an acquaintance is a patient at "Mount Cyanide." In Santeiro's shrewdest insight, the villain is not a religious humbug but a larcenous Lothario masquerading as an embodiment of the work ethic, and the cant he peddles is based on an immigrant assimilationist version of the American Dream...
Betty Mensh and Alan Freeman, Professors of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, wrote in the recent issue of Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...last minority summer internship program (okay, maybe so it's reverse discrimination, but we've been oppressed for 300 years, and we can hardly join any country clubs), everybody seemed to be assimilationist--we rarely made fun of white people. Of course, we played it close to the vest regarding our true sentiments...
...headlines of Lazarus' article clearly show this skewed coverage: "The Asian Quandary" and "Asian-Americans at Harvard--Finding an Identity Between the Assimilationist and Separatist Extremes...