There's no indication that it's true, any more than that it was true that the Mexican migrants of the last couple of decades were unassimilable, any more than it's true that Muslim Americans are unassimilable.
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There is something at once mind-blowing and unassimilable about the phenomenon.
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There was an interest in portraying, and treating, no one as unassimilable.
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It was unassimilable, my night in the Sahara, and it left me disquieted and full of doubt.
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In congressional debate about the bill, proponents portrayed Chinese immigrants as unassimilable: too backward, too undemocratic, too foreign.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Hannah Arendt, an untimely, unassimilable figure, looms ever larger in the life of thought.
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Trump's rhetoric is powerful because it ties a specific problem of gang violence to a whole wave of migrants from Central America — deeming them all, to some extent, unassimilable.
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I also don't see strong evidence the refugee program was creating a major terrorism risk, or threatening to create the kind of unassimilable enclaves that Europe is dealing with today.
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"In their rhetoric, Nazis talked about Jews using animal terminology (of rats, insects, and pigs) and as unassimilable foreigners, and described them using language of disease and sexual deviance," Pitzer continued.
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But here's my grander working theory: Those creepy sensations arise when fingertips, in sync with other finely tuned sensory systems, experience nanoscopically confounding surfaces like cardboard or paper towels as mentally unassimilable.
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An insistence on the unassimilable weirdness of human life appears in all of them, and they all have the same diffident sense of humor, one that feels very much like a defense mechanism.
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It was only with the coming of British rule to India in the 22014th century that a culture that had prided itself on its powers of assimilation was confronted with an unassimilable influence.
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Food and hygiene slander have long been the spear tip of attacks by contemptuous (or envious) Westerners seeking to make Chinese seem impossibly alien, and thus unassimilable and inadmissible to their "civilized" countries.
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JL: While the current stereotype of Asian-Americans is that they are smart, competent and hard-working, a century ago, Asian-Americans were perceived as illiterate, undesirable, full of "filth and disease" and unassimilable.
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Yet Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ramos are all but unimaginable in that context, partly because their art has a specifically period feel, but more because it is fundamentally, flamboyantly anti-classical, meaning anti-institutional, pro-alien, unassimilable.
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And others, like Brokaw's remark, reveal how stereotypes about immigrants are reproduced in the guise of political commentary — that they don't work hard enough, they don't speak or want to speak English and that they are in fact unassimilable.
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They saw Chinese migrants as unassimilable because they refrained from American habits of consumption—they "did not eat red meat, buy books or nice clothes, engage in leisure," so the stereotype went—and they didn't appear to support dependents in the United States, instead sending their pay home to families in China.
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I think Andy Ngo's work is designed to confirm some truly ugly American instincts: that something inherent in Islam makes Muslims unassimilable, that minority groups using their status cynically is as big a problem as discrimination against them, and that a tiny pocket of the American left poses as great a threat to the freedom of Americans as a federal government careening toward permanent minority rule.
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In Hillman's psychology, the "immunisation of the imaginal from the historical process has become inherent in its very form."Giegerich, W. (2008). 'The unassimilable remnant — what is at stake?: A dispute with Stanton Marlan' In Archetypal Psychologies, ed.
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58 (Catholics [and Buddhists] going south), 66 (many prevented from leaving the north).Huntington (1968) pp. 310–311. Forcing "unassimilable elements" into exile creates in those remaining a "new homogenous community" and hence strengthens the ruling party, e.g.
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Robert Paxton argues that "a passionate nationalism" is the basis of fascism, combined with "a conspiratorial and Manichean view of history" which holds that "the chosen people have been weakened by political parties, social classes, unassimilable minorities, spoiled rentiers, and rationalist thinkers".Paxton, Robert O. (2004) The Anatomy Of Fascism. New York: Knopf. p. 41. Roger Griffin identifies the core of fascism as being palingenetic ultranationalism.
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2257, 2306–07 (2002). The Justice Department declined, stating that there was no probable cause to support DeWitt's assertion, as the FBI concluded that there was no security threat. On January 2, the Joint Immigration Committee of the California Legislature sent a manifesto to California newspapers which attacked "the ethnic Japanese," who it alleged were "totally unassimilable." This manifesto further argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the Emperor of Japan; the manifesto contended that Japanese language schools were bastions of racism which advanced doctrines of Japanese racial superiority.
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Davila, who meanwhile returned to his old post, planned to stage Manasse in October 1913. Iorga, this time assisted by Cuza, again stirred up the students against what they considered an "anti-Romanian" performance. These events occurred against a backdrop of petitions by native-born Jews asking that all Romanian Jews be granted citizenship. Politicians who considered Jews unassimilable opposed the idea, and Interior Minister Take Ionescu remarked that "it would be pure madness on our part to stage Manasse right when the Jewish question is being forced upon us".
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He was of the view that if they became fully autonomous, then they would end up being controlled by the most reactionary elements of their community; as an example he cited the largely illiterate Tatars, whom he claimed would end up dominated by their mullahs. Stalin argued that the Jews possessed a "national character" but were not a "nation" and were thus unassimilable. He argued that Jewish nationalism, particularly Zionism, was hostile to socialism. According to Khlevniuk, Stalin reconciled Marxism with great-power imperialism and therefore expansion of the empire makes him a worthy to the Russian tsars.
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The NRP was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for possible prosecution under the Smith Act, although no action was ever taken in this regard. The investigation began in 1954, when HUAC commissioned a staff report on the group. According to The New York Times, the report found "that the National Renaissance Party appeared to have controvened the Smith Act (against advocacy of overthrow of the Government by force or violence) as much as had the Communist party itself" and that the NRP "had 'virtually borrowed wholesale' from Fascist and Nazi dictators material for its program," which included the abolition of American democracy, a "fascist" economy controlled by corporations, deportation of "unassimilable" people and oppression of Jews.
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Boalt has recently become known for his racist views of Chinese people. He was an influential supporter of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. In 1877 he read a paper before the Berkeley Club in which he wrote that Chinese were unassimilable liars, murderers and misogynists who provoked "unconquerable repulsion." This writing was later championed by Senator Creed Haymond of Sacramento, who was the chair of the newly convened Senate Special Committee on Chinese Immigration and California Senator Aaron A. Sargent. Boalt married Elizabeth Josselyn (born Hanover, Massachusetts 30 June 1838) on 31 July 1866, in Waverly, Massachusetts, and together they had one child, Alice Boalt Tevis, first wife of Hugh Tevis, who died unexpectedly and was "a blow from which Judge Boalt never recovered".
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In 1929, several already-established Nisei organizations merged to form the Japanese American Citizens League, most prominent among them Fresno's American Loyalty League (headed by Nisei UC educated dentist, Dr. Thomas T. Yatabe b1897-d1977), the Seattle Progressive Citizens League, and the San Francisco-based New American Citizens League. The nascent JACL held its first national conference in Seattle in 1930JACL. "History of the Japanese American Citizens League" (accessed February 14, 2014) and soon after began work to expand the citizenship rights of Japanese and Asian Americans, who were considered unassimilable to American society and therefore ineligible for naturalization under the Immigration Act of 1924. Their first target was the Cable Act of 1922, which revoked the citizenship of women who married men ineligible for citizenship, namely Asian immigrants.
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It has been particularly applied as a negative stereotype of Asian Americans, but it has also affected other minority groups, which have been considered to be "the other" and therefore legally unassimilable, either historically or currently. In personal interactions, it can take the form of an act of microaggression in which a member of a minority group may be asked, "Where are you from?" Also, it can take the form of an explicit act of aggression in which a member of a minority group may be told, "Go back to where you came from." Black Americans are often told "go back to Africa" as a racial insult, despite the fact that on average, they are more likely to have a multi-generational family history in the United States than white Americans do.
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The woman as a self does not exist. Haraway criticizes both when writing that "my complaint about socialist/Marxian standpoints is their unintended erasure of polyvocal, unassimilable, radical difference made visible in anti-colonial discourse and practice" and "MacKinnon's intentional erasure of all difference through the device of the 'essential' non-existence of women is not reassuring" (299). Haraway also indirectly critiques white feminism by highlighting the struggles of women of color: she suggests that a woman of color "might be understood as a cyborg identity, a potent subjectivity synthesized from fusions of outsider identities and in the complex political-historical layerings of her 'biomythography.'" To counteract the essentializing and anachronistic rhetoric of spiritual ecofeminists, who were fighting patriarchy with modernist constructions of female-as-nature and earth mothers, Haraway employs the cyborg to refigure feminism into cybernetic code.
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According to the 2004 book entitled Migration Between States and Markets, the phrases "immigrant invasion" or "illegal alien invasion" and similar iterations, are used by nativists to describe what they believe are unassimilated and unassimilable immigrants. Louis Dow Scisco (1868-) coined the term nativism in his 1901 PhD thesis in reference to anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiments in the 1850s in the United States. In his 1955 seminal and most influential academic study of the history of American nativism, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925—which has been reprinted numerous times—John Higham, then a history professor in the University of Michigan, described nativism as "an inflamed and nationalistic type of ethnocentrism."Higham was writing against the backdrop of the 1954 McCarthy hearings, in which for 36 days, investigative hearings into the alleged infiltration of the federal government agencies—including the CIA—by communists, led by then-Senator Joseph McCarthy, were televised.
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In 1988, Tyndall described his crime as having "dared to publish an honest and frank opinion on the relative merits of Whites and Negroes." Tyndall argued that non-whites were unassimilable to Britain and that those living in Britain should be repatriated. Tyndall strongly objected to interracial relationships and miscegenation and remarked in his book The Eleventh Hour: "I feel deeply sorry for the child of a mixed marriage, but I can have no sympathy whatever for the parents ... They produced an offspring that will never wholly fit, and will undoubtedly face a life much harder than the normal person born of pure race." In contrast to his views on non-white migration, he spoke positively of white immigrants from Ireland, Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic states, regarding them as being racially similar and sharing the "same basic culture" as the British and were thus easily able to assimilate "within a generation or two".
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Explaining the success of the Dunning School, historian Peter Novick noted two forces—the need to reconcile the North and the South after the Civil War and the increase in racism as Social Darwinism appeared to back the concept with science—that contributed to a "racist historiographical consensus" around the turn of the 20th century on the "criminal outrages" of Reconstruction.Novick pp. 74–77. Stampp (p. 20) makes a similar point: :"It [the Dunning interpretation of reconstruction] was written at a time when xenophobia had become almost a national disease, when numerous northern cities (among them Philadelphia and Chicago) were seriously considering the establishment of racially segregated schools, and when Negroes and immigrants were being lumped together in the category of unassimilable aliens" Novick provided examples of the style of the Dunning School approach when he wrote: Even James Wilford Garner's Reconstruction in Mississippi, regarded by W. E. B. Du Bois as the fairest work of the Dunning school, depicted Reconstruction as "unwise" and black politicians as liabilities to Southern administrations.
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