Word: assimilationist
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...spiraled out of control in the poor and predominantly Muslim suburbs of Paris (the banlieues), reaching as high as 50 percent for those aged 18 to 26. The dramatic differences in employment and opportunity between the banlieues and the rest of France suggest that France’s traditional assimilationist approach toward its immigrant population has failed. Even after two or three generations in France, and despite the state’s supposed blindness to race, opportunities for immigrants and their offspring seem to be getting worse rather than better...
...Gore famously mistranslated our national motto, E pluribus unum, as “out of one, many.” Lamentably, the balkanization implied by Gore’s mistranslation could eventually come to pass if we don’t rediscover the assimilationist, melting pot ideal. Acceptance of that ideal presupposes a faith in the basic virtues of American life and the essential decency of the American people. If Huntington’s forthcoming book, Who Are We?, helps reinvigorate that faith among our cultural elites, he will have performed a valuable service indeed...
...Across the West there has been this tendency [of gays] at first of not wanting to be heard,” he said in an interview last year with Tehelka.com. “Now there is an assimilationist movement that has shifted things to the other extreme. I hate both extremes.... I want gay issues to be valid to mainstream culture and be taken seriously by mainstream readers...
This hokey 1958 Broadway hit has justly languished in dinner theaters ever since. Now, in a radical revision at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, playwright David Henry Hwang treats the original like "some kind of weird Oriental minstrel show," as one character puts it, and wraps its assimilationist anthems into a merry multicultural trip from Tiananmen Square to San Francisco's Chinatown. Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom adds a dollop of kitsch--and somehow the mix is funny and clever. It even jerks a tear or two. Broadway, get ready...
...There is a question whether we should concentrate on marriage or broader issues," said Baldwin. "There are people inside BGLTSA who dislike [gay marriage] as an assimilationist position...