assimilationist
noun
as·sim·i·la·tion·ist ə-ˌsi-mə-ˈlā-sh(ə-)nist 
: a person who advocates a policy of assimilating differing racial or cultural groups
assimilationism
ə-ˌsi-mə-ˈlā-shə-ˌni-zəm
noun assimilationist adjective
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The Canadian Museum for Human Rights dedicates a significant portion of its permanent display to the truth about Canada’s violent assimilationist policies. 
Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2022 There is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which dedicates a significant portion of its permanent display to the truth about Canada’s violent assimilationist policies. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022 Or just a conservative, or assimilationist — or lawyer? Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Jan. 2022 It’s an odd pre-buttal, given that his work fits neatly within the long history of African American assimilationist thought. Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021 The book recounts massacres and broken treaties, and pays particular attention to the Friends of the Indian movement, white activists whose misguided assimilationist enterprises further eroded Indigenous nations. The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021 France has tended to view its model as assimilationist in opposition to American multiculturalism. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021 Macdonald’s role in Canada’s assimilationist policies hasn’t been broadly taught or understood until recently. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2020 Many of those older campaigns, which some radicals see as assimilationist, fractured after Obama granted their wish, all their strategic aims put in one basket. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 June 2020 See More
Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2022 There is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which dedicates a significant portion of its permanent display to the truth about Canada’s violent assimilationist policies. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022 Or just a conservative, or assimilationist — or lawyer? Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Jan. 2022 It’s an odd pre-buttal, given that his work fits neatly within the long history of African American assimilationist thought. Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021 The book recounts massacres and broken treaties, and pays particular attention to the Friends of the Indian movement, white activists whose misguided assimilationist enterprises further eroded Indigenous nations. The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021 France has tended to view its model as assimilationist in opposition to American multiculturalism. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021 Macdonald’s role in Canada’s assimilationist policies hasn’t been broadly taught or understood until recently. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2020 Many of those older campaigns, which some radicals see as assimilationist, fractured after Obama granted their wish, all their strategic aims put in one basket. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 June 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
assimilationism
noun
as in antiracism
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- antiracism
- antidiscrimination
- antisegregation
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- racism
- prejudice
- racialism
- segregation
- apartheid
- separatism
- race-baiting
- Jim Crow