assimilationist

From assimilation +‎ -ist.

assimilationist (plural assimilationists)

1. (sociology) An advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.

   Spanish-language education is not favored by assimilationist parents of Latino children in the US.

   • 1998, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, Jerome A. Chanes, A Portrait of the American Jewish Community, page xii:

     To the assimilationists, American Jews have not merely acculturated — they have assimilated.

   • 1999, Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain‎^[1], page 147:

     The conflict between melting-pot assimilationists and cultural pluralists betrays a fundamental uncertainty about the meaning of American nationhood, and about the role ethnicity plays in it.

   • 2000, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism‎^[2], page 224:

     The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine.

• (sociology): integrationist

assimilationist (comparative more assimilationist, superlative most assimilationist)

1. (sociology) Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.
   • 1990 December 9, Ed Fendor, “The Promised Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 4:

     I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.

   • 2000, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China‎^[3], page 62:

     Shortly after Chiang Kaishek came to power, however, the GMD^[Guomindang] once again withdrew its support for self-determination and pursued a more assimilationist strategy.

   • 2011, Peter Scholten, Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective‎^[4], page 187:

     SCP^{[Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands]} was also more explicitly involved in advocating a more assimilationist approach in this period.

   • 2012, Robert Consedine, Joana Consedine, Healing Our History, page 22:

     Although there have been many attempts throughout history by the state to assist Maori, many government policies have been paternalistic and assimilationist in nature.

   • 2015, Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism‎^[5], page 224:

     To an extent, reformers – such as the Vietnamese and Tunisian constitutionalists or the Antilleans and Malagasies of the LFADCIM^{[French League for the Attainment of the Rights of Citizens of the Natives of Madagascar]} – were more assimilationist than radicals in the sense that they demanded an extension of French citizenship rights and of naturalization.

   • 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School‎^[6], volume 20, number 2, page 267‎^[7], archived from the original on 24 February 2025:

     At times, the assimilationist paradigm has facilitated the physical dispossession of Native lands and the suppression or eradication of Native institutions, culture, and identity by the political branches of the federal government.

• (sociology): integrationist

• multiculturalist
• pluralist