unassimilated
unassimilated
definition
adjective
Future generations will inherit a tangle of rancorous, unassimilated , squabbling cultures with no common bond to hold them together, and a certain guarantee of the death of this nation as a harmonious ‘melting pot.’
(especially of a people, an idea, or a culture) not absorbed or integrated into a wider society or culture.
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Instead, we are treated to a catch-all of 'unassimilated' third-century Christian heresies, with John Milton, Ralph Ellison, Anthrophagy, the synoptic Gospels, and Road Runner cartoons thrown in for our pleasure and instruction.
In this instance, what is internalized also persists 'unassimilated' ; Keats is absorbed in material he claims to have incorporated, relying on the tale of a Fall precisely when he attempts to displace it.
On the one hand, the orthographical apparatus supports the supposed inferiority of black dialect as ‘broken’ English; on the other hand, italicizing Yiddish words underlines their 'unassimilated' foreignness.
Both assimilated and 'unassimilated' Jews, both religious and secular Jews, were equally victimized by pogroms, persecutions and genocide.
The analysis also includes coding for assimilated or 'unassimilated' names, helping us to determine the voters' first language - English or the language of their country of origin.
As we saw in Chapter 2, a fear of divided loyalties and identities - supposedly the result of 'unassimilated' ethnic groups - has underlain the formation of most nation-states.
The persecution of European Jews impacted on Jews not simply as men and women, but also as religious and irreligious, assimilated and 'unassimilated' , Zionist and non-Zionist, rich and poor, urban and rural, young and old.
The mystery left unanswered is why Germany doesn't take the simpler, more obvious step - allowing immigration, but denying immigrants the welfare benefits that support an 'unassimilated' opposition culture.
As a former professor, Nazerman would not have been representative of German Jewry had he been depicted as 'unassimilated' .
The first level consists of tales that circulated primarily in 'unassimilated' band and tribal societies, though the tales may have only been written down after assimilation.
But the broader culture of ‘intolerance’ in certain 'unassimilated' communities is a potentially much bigger problem.
The failure of assimilation created the current question that is subtly asked through racist journalism: can an 'unassimilated' population still maintain human rights once they have been removed?
The Roma, who are scattered throughout the country, mostly in small camps on the outskirts of towns and cities, are in many ways culturally 'unassimilated' .
More importantly, she attributes much of this newness or thirdness to the process of acquiring a second language, primarily because this achievement distinguishes her from her 'unassimilated' ethnic peers and from ‘normal Americans.’
I know that many countries in Europe already have major problems with large 'unassimilated' minorities.
Not only does it put 'unassimilated' persons and groups at a severe disadvantage in the competition for scarce positions and resources, but it requires that persons transform their sense of identity in order to assimilate.
Future generations will inherit a tangle of rancorous, 'unassimilated' , squabbling cultures with no common bond to hold them together, and a certain guarantee of the death of this nation as a harmonious ‘melting pot.’
There is no such thing as a specifically Hungarian American holiday, perhaps because the attention of most 'unassimilated' Hungarian Americans is focused on the mother country.
All the embarrassing baggage of ethnicity - 'unassimilated' habits, Yiddish accent, incomplete understanding of American mores - was projected onto the mother, a representative of outmoded values.
Were immigrants arriving in such numbers that they might remain 'unassimilated' in cultural ghettoes, eventually undermining social or national cohesion?
This is especially the case when immigrants are aggressively 'unassimilable' .
In many ways, she came to embody what I came to consider my ‘Chineseness’ - that foreign, 'unassimilable' , independent core.
They stigmatized Irish Catholic immigrants as an 'unassimilable' horde of criminals, slum dwellers, lunatics, and drunkards.
Against middle-class nirvana, we have working-class protest; against the romance of hetero-normative assimilation, we have the resistant strains of 'unassimilable' difference.
That future depends, it seems, on eradicating the rogue element in Japanese society represented by Murakami's thief, the 'unassimilable' soldier who fought a failed war.
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