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 sergeant, a fanatical assimilationist, strives to be accepted by white society by adopting its values and biases. —Charles Mcnulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023

Genial and assimilationist! —Grace Lavery, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2022

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

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Word History

Etymology

assimilation + -ist entry 1

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above