unassimilated
adjective
un·as·sim·i·lat·ed
ˌən-ə-ˈsi-mə-ˌlā-təd 
: not assimilated: such as
a
: not absorbed into the culture or mores of a population or group
unassimilated immigrants
b
: not thoroughly comprehended
unassimilated facts
c
: not absorbed or utilized as nourishment
unassimilated nutrients
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Dudamel filled the first two weeks of the season with a generous vision of America, leading works by the 20th-century New Englander Charles Ives, the unassimilated immigrant Béla Bartók, the 87-year-old New Yorker John Corigliano, and the young(ish) native Hawaiian Leilehua Lanzilotti.
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Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Coppola snatches unassimilated ideas from current political paranoia and recent cultural catastrophes (manic news media promoting celebrity insanity), all tossed into the mix with demented incoherence.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
All American families are alike; each unassimilated family is unassimilated in its own way.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
The writing itself was just as singular — unassimilated and unafraid even by today’s standards.
—Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
Houston introduces us to a different kind of immigrant from what Hollywood usually offers up: the characters are prickly, resourceful, unassimilated.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022
Adam’s strange fluency is analogous to Darren’s strange, unassimilated hesitancy and simplicity.
—Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
Such fighters are often persuadable because of their weak affiliations with their own country and national identity, especially in the case of unassimilated immigrants or the politically repressed or economically marginalized.
—David Malet, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
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Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Coppola snatches unassimilated ideas from current political paranoia and recent cultural catastrophes (manic news media promoting celebrity insanity), all tossed into the mix with demented incoherence.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
All American families are alike; each unassimilated family is unassimilated in its own way.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
The writing itself was just as singular — unassimilated and unafraid even by today’s standards.
—Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
Houston introduces us to a different kind of immigrant from what Hollywood usually offers up: the characters are prickly, resourceful, unassimilated.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022
Adam’s strange fluency is analogous to Darren’s strange, unassimilated hesitancy and simplicity.
—Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
Such fighters are often persuadable because of their weak affiliations with their own country and national identity, especially in the case of unassimilated immigrants or the politically repressed or economically marginalized.
—David Malet, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
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