assimilationist

noun

1. 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.”

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

   “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.”

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

adj

1. Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

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

   “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.”