It's hard to understand why a second-generation immigrant would choose to assimilate into such a society: Who would want to assimilate into racism?
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Others emphasized their desire to assimilate into the larger group.
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Or will they be forced to assimilate into the Hilltop community?
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The problem is this: There's no one "America" to assimilate into.
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Jeremiah was saying you don't need to assimilate into the new place.
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Fight the urge to assimilate into a toxic conversation, tactic, or relationship.
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Most American Muslims said they thought Muslims wanted to assimilate into American customs.
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"I don't want to assimilate into middle-class values," one student tells Heller.
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NASCAR driver Kurt Busch wants to help military veterans assimilate into civilian life.
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Or should they assimilate into the wider society or culture in which they live?
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More specifically, I'm interested in how people either assimilate into culture or assert their individuality.
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He spoke with sincerity, but could Saleh really assimilate into a society he'd once despised?
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For some Filipinos, the quest to assimilate into Israeli society has included marrying Israeli men.
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You could be born on the fringes and assimilate into this new thing called an American.
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That's paradoxical in a way: Why wouldn't they want to fully assimilate into white American culture?
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But they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.
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Mulan and I both had ties to a Chinese culture we could not fully understand or assimilate into.
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Social workers, volunteers and professionals will surround the families with everything they need to assimilate into Canadian life.
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He was forced to assimilate into a society while trying his best to not be seen as threatening.
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"We hope to quickly assimilate into the local market through in-depth cooperation with local Japanese companies," said Tan.
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"You can assimilate into the hustle and bustle, and that's part of the problem," Mr. Cornegy, a Democrat, said.
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There are organizers that help former prisoners assimilate into the workforce, but the support is generally few and far between.
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Why did the Stones assimilate into mainstream culture after years of making music on the vanguard of a sociopolitical rebellion?
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It's like, I'm trying to assimilate into this western world but I also have a culture that I come from.
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They wander the savannah alone until they assimilate into a new group at the bottom of the hierarchy of males.
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" King went on to criticize illegal immigration to the United States and immigrants who don't "assimilate into the American culture.
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Edwige Charlot: My heritage and the cultures I've had to assimilate into are a large part of my studio's dialogue.
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My grandparents were severely affected by the residential school system—where indigenous children were sent to assimilate into Canadian society.
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At best, it's a story about an immigrant mother's worries as she watches her daughter assimilate into rich, white American culture.
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So after Eastern Europeans and Russian Jews were able to assimilate into America, who are the next beneficiaries of those programs?
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Instead, they should prepare to assimilate into Indonesian society as best they can, or consider returning to their strife-torn countries.
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Critics of the veils argue that the ban makes public spaces safer and encourages foreigners to assimilate into the country's culture.
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They're not MS-13 ... but they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.
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I thought about how hard I tried to assimilate into the fashion industry, straightening my hair and constantly wearing weaves and extensions.
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It seemed like an easy choice for two Chinese natives keen to assimilate into one of the coffee capitals of the world.
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Our legal immigration system should admit people who are most likely to succeed and contribute economically, and successfully assimilate into American society.
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Point being, the need we feel to assimilate into the mass adoption of structural technologies is more fundamental than pure cultural pressure.
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" He tied his argument to illegal immigration, saying that those who come to the country illegally refuse to "assimilate into American culture.
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Actually, Muslim Americans aren't "refusing to assimilate" into America — and for Pete's sake, there weren't thousands of them cheering on 9/11.
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Instead, it seems these highly trained killing machines are being prepared to assimilate into American life, totally undetected — and therefore even more dangerous.
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I wouldn't be who I am without the various remedial programs that existed in my neighborhood to help immigrants assimilate into American society.
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But it also turns the restrictionist worry that immigrants today prefer to live transnational lives rather than assimilate into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I enjoy how I can assimilate into both cultures and be proud of my origins, however historically disenfranchised or glorified they may be.
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The family has worked hard to assimilate into American life, she said, and her children all have Anglo names: Frank, Ashley and Jesse.
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I wanted to photograph their quest to assimilate into American life while staying true to the traditions of their home country and Islam.
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That's the push to bring in much illegal immigration into America, living in enclaves, refusing to assimilate into the American culture and civilization.
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"We love refugees, but we want only those coming here who love us and want to assimilate into our culture and way of life."
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We love refugees but we want only those coming here who love us and want to assimilate into our culture and way of life.
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China insists their internment is necessary as a counterterrorism measure and to educate the population to speak Mandarin and otherwise assimilate into Chinese culture.
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Given how easily SpongeBob's characters and storylines seem to assimilate into internet culture, it's truly remarkable that SpongeBob memes have also remained essentially wholesome.
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In 2017, Patterson co-wrote an op-ed for The Federalist website blaming mass killings on immigrants who failed to "assimilate" into American culture.
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How can they assimilate into Italian society if the government taxes them to fund health care programs, but sidelines them from the national community?
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Supporters of the laws say they are necessary to protect public safety, defend Western values or encourage migrants to assimilate into their new societies.
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"I'm still here when most of the people I got into the scene with have fallen away to assimilate into 'real life,'" she said.
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Supporters of such bans say they are necessary to protect public safety, defend Western values or encourage migrants to assimilate into their new societies.
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"The Muslim immigrants of today, who will not integrate or assimilate into society, could and will be the terrorists of tomorrow," Sellner told me.
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"The White House went on to say Trump wants immigrants who can "contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation.
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This was the best nunchi crash course I could have asked for, because I had to assimilate into a foreign culture with zero linguistic clues.
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I look back and I'm grateful for it, but as a teenager, you just want to assimilate into something else and not even understand why.
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While her partner Vikram and others try to assimilate into their new home, Hel refuses, and works to establish a museum dedicated to their lost home.
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It starts as an outsider narrative — three Sri Lankan refugees, posing as a family in order to flee to France, try to assimilate into their new country.
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Debate 2: The second clause of the immigration deal says that if they are allowed in, the immigrants have an obligation to assimilate into the local culture.
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The exquisite corpse drawings, as framed by Laxton, were also the Surrealists' way of wrestling with painting — which was harder to assimilate into their idea of automatism.
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The rationale behind sending only Spanish speaking-populations to Mexico for prolonged periods is that they would be better able to assimilate into local society and find work.
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It immersed viewers into a world where vampires have decided, thanks to the development of synthetic human blood, to come out of hiding and assimilate into mainstream U.S. society.
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But it will matter that he told millions of Americans, over and over again, that Muslim Americans need to assimilate into American society — and that they aren't doing it.
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But internalized transphobia pervading my writing, speech, and/or jokes lead me to assimilate into the gay male culture of my school, which I found to be toxic and limiting.
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Focused on one striking Sargent portrait amid family ephemera, this exhibition details candidly and vividly the difficulties faced by a Jewish family trying to assimilate into upper-crust British society.
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For women who are developing bodies that will most likely never assimilate into the mythical monochrome of Middle America, there's very little validation available in the media or anywhere else.
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But, as Aimee Villarreal argues, Nuevomexicanos returning from World War II reinvented the Entrada as part of an effort to assimilate into the U.S. without giving up their traditions altogether.
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For most Americans, though, the difference that matters isn't between legal and unauthorized immigrants — it's between immigrants they find likely to assimilate into "American culture" and those who (they believe) cannot.
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They want to reduce immigration of all kinds, and especially immigration from people they don't think can assimilate into American culture — whether that's because they're low-skilled or because they're Muslim.
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A century ago, men such as University of Wisconsin sociologist Edward Ross penned influential works on "new" immigrants that claimed certain groups would not be able to assimilate into American society.
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LADIVINE by Marie NDiaye This fantastical novel by the French-Senegalese NDiaye follows four generations of women, and their relationships with each other, as they work to assimilate into French society.
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Americans fell in love with his comprehensive theory of evolution, claiming that Reconstruction policies would allow inferior blacks to evolve (or assimilate) into white civilization or lose the struggle for existence.
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New policies, language and forms of address recognizing nonbinary gender identities and classifications are prompting Americans to move beyond the assumption that everyone should assimilate into the categories of male or female.
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In 2007, when Vampire Weekend first began posting its music on MySpace and playing shows, the band's crisp sound and polite, if esoteric, lyrics were difficult to assimilate into the indie landscape.
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When nonwhite Americans don't assimilate into their communities, they must be a terroristic "fifth column"; when they show a desire to assimilate, they must be trying to cover up their terroristic aims.
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No, he didn't tell — And Crumpler knows that it's going to be a huge challenge to help these people assimilate into society and to address their many basic needs, including health care.
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In America, someone who is white can choose to assimilate into mainstream society, which emphasizes forgetting or marginalizing your origins, or literally forgetting where you came from because America is where you belong.
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"One explanation for the rise in terrorist behavior in the United States is the insidious and significantly difficult-to-pinpoint problem of failure to assimilate into an adopted culture," Patterson and Efferson wrote.
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He told VICE that the nickname was given to him by an afterschool basketball coach, and it stuck, at the behest of his parents, who wanted their son to assimilate into American culture.
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Just like today, where we're so preoccupied with the role of immigrants in this country, how we welcome them and the degree to which they should or would assimilate into our middle class.
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What I learned as a volunteer for the process, program and bill was that among the missing components was the demand that aliens have the moral responsibility to assimilate into the American culture.
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Many of the stars couldn't assimilate into the new world of talkies — Gilbert eventually fizzled into anonymity — but Bow and her fetching New York accent were able to flourish in the new era.
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"One explanation for the rise in terrorist behavior in the United States is the insidious and significantly difficult-to-pinpoint problem of failure to assimilate into an adopted culture," Patterson and A.D.P. Efferson wrote.
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A lack of a common spirit combined with rapidly changing numbers of civil groups that do not assimilate into the established way of life will radically change any society in one or two decades.
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American nativists have usually been more afraid of some kinds of immigrants than others — and one way for an immigrant to assimilate into American life is to play the "good immigrant," attacking the bad ones.
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" He added that the American value system is "in jeopardy because of immigration if people who are coming into the country do not understand the American values and don't want to assimilate into American society.
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You don't need to get a PhD and work for NASA, or go to an Ivy, or write a bestseller, or fuck, even "assimilate" into "our modern US society" to have value as an immigrant.
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Assimilationists sounded kinder: they often fought against black oppression, but they also argued that black people needed to change their behavior—their culture—in order to catch up to white people and assimilate into white society.
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In an important distinction with African slavery in parts of the Americas, Genízaros could sometimes attain economic independence and even assimilate into the dominant Hispanic classes, taking the surnames of their masters and embracing Roman Catholicism.
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Museums & Galleries Focused on one striking Sargent portrait amid family ephemera, this exhibition, which closes on Sunday, details candidly and vividly the difficulties faced by a Jewish family trying to assimilate into upper-crust British society.
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What others condemned as wasteful, Montoya saw as an attempt to craft an alternative identity that could not be smothered by calls to assimilate into mainstream American culture — which often excluded these men and women anyway.
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Racial and national security fears during World War I led Congress to establish an "Asiatic barred zone" starting in 1917, acting on the belief that Chinese, Japanese and other Asian immigrants could not assimilate into American society.
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I grew up in Colorado as the only person of Asian descent in most of the environments I lived in, and so learned to assimilate into American culture while rejecting, sometimes violently, my parents and their culture.
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Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation.
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And despite frequent talk about dismantling the "model minority" myth today, few know that East-Asian Americans actually helped originate that stereotype—intentionally portraying themselves as "upstanding citizens" who could assimilate into the white mainstream of 1940s postwar America.
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Moving forward, those of us who have the privilege and stomach may allow themselves to further assimilate into a dominant culture that is increasingly unfriendly toward other queer people, many of whom are trans, people or color, or both.
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"Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation," he said.
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This may be a result of the fact that refugees are slow to assimilate into the U.S. and that their wages remain nearly stagnant, with the average refugee earning approximately $28500 an hour during their first year in the country.
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"You don't need to get a PhD and work for NASA, or go to an Ivy, or write a bestseller, or f--k, even "assimilate" into "our modern U.S. society" to have value as an immigrant," she wrote on Twitter.
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The look, consisting of denim, butch plaid, and often a Freddie Mercury-style stache, outfitted a large constituent of the neighborhood's queer folk, each attempting to assimilate into a painstakingly heteronormative society by way of exposed chest hair and proletarian fashions.
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Karl Subban, the father of the Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban, likes to tell the story about how he moved with his family from Jamaica to Sudbury, Ontario, as a boy and how hockey helped him assimilate into the Canadian fabric.
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Mr. Olmos's performances in projects like the 1988 high school drama "Stand and Deliver" and the 1992 crime saga "American Me," also draw attention to the obstacles that modern Latino citizens face when they try to assimilate into American society.
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"Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation," he added.
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As recently as 2006, national Democrats including former President Barack Obama expressed wariness about immigrants' ability to assimilate into American culture and did not openly embrace gay marriage — two talking points that would probably be deeply damaging for any 2020 candidate.
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I'm actually very excited about how black this show is about to be now that the trailer makes it clear that it's the white family that has to assimilate into a very proud, black, middle-class neighborhood and not the other way around.
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White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE claims that using family separation as a deterrent is justified because asylum seekers "are not people that would easily assimilate into the United States" — a statement that is both demonstrably false and irrelevant.
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Started almost two decades ago as a free newspaper and website with a stated mission to "provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate into American society," The Epoch Times now wields one of the biggest social media followings of any news outlet.
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A range of midskilled jobs gave the children and grandchildren of those immigrants the chance to leave urban tenements and drought-ridden farms to assimilate into a thriving American middle class with a car in the garage and a summer vacation at an upstate lake.
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For example, in an early scene, when Starr talks about code switching (the act of attempting to strip away one's "Black" vernacular, look, or mannerisms in an attempt to assimilate into white spaces) she takes off her hoodie: that symbolizes, in this respect, Trayvon Martin's tragic death.
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The film is 158 minutes of loose incident on the road after that, as Star observes the group and doesn't entirely assimilate into it, and as she and Jake circle each other, trying to take possession of each other without giving away too much in return.
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Some scholars have even argued (though I think they're not quite right) that the immigrant groups of the previous generation have only been able to fully assimilate into America by oppressing whoever was below them on the ladder of Americanness — and usually that was African Americans.
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" The White House seemed to lean into this defense, releasing a statement from spokesman Raj Shah that said "President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation.
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Turkey hosts almost 3.6 million Syrian refugees and has spent about $30 billion on refugee assistance, which dwarfs the $6 billion in aid it received from the EU. While some refugees will assimilate into Turkish society, their arrival increased anti-Arab sentiment over concerns about Turkey's weak economy and cultural differences.
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She worked to assimilate into her own art-making some of that disciplined genre's common features — its peculiar, push-me-pull-you perspectives, its layering of pictorial space and its economical but dramatic and expressive line, which can conjure up full-bodied volumes or capture fine details with a minimum of knowing, well-placed strokes.
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As the popularity of living alone or with roommates has slowly chipped away at the percentage of people living with a spouse or lover, the demographic shift is largely the result of a "dramatic" decrease in the number of people who choose to "settle down" before they turn 35—not our failure to assimilate into adulthood.
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Police violence was a fact of life then — as it continues to be today — for those who could not or would not assimilate into the larger society, for those whose class, race, gender presentation, sexuality, or means of earning money did not adhere to social norms or punitive laws and the entrenched racism that underpinned them.
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Mr. Kaczynski's political career tracks the pendulum swings in Poland's post-Communist efforts to find its place in Europe, from throwing off the shackles of the Soviet Union through the establishment of a robust democracy and ascension to the European Union to, now, a reassertion of what Mr. Kaczynski sees as traditional conservative values lost in the rush to assimilate into the West.
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But to suggest by coy indirection ("Poor Sophie Portnoy") that he is among those Jewish writers and comics who worked the theme of the overbearing Jewish mother because they were (if, indeed, any of them were; how does she know?) "desperate to assimilate into mainstream society and spewed their mommy issues across the page, stage and screen" — what a dimwitted insult to a giant.
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Rather, our true regional fissures can be traced back to the contrasting ideals of the distinct European colonial cultures that first took root on the eastern and southern rims of what is now the United States, and then spread across much of the continent in mutually exclusive settlement bands, laying down the institutions, symbols and cultural norms later arrivals would encounter and, by and large, assimilate into.
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These ideas – asserting the primacy of the American public's interest in immigration policy, selecting immigrants based on an objective assessment of their likelihood to succeed economically and assimilate into the cultural mainstream, and sensibly enforcing our laws by discouraging illegal aliens from remaining here by removing the incentives of jobs, public benefits, and the prospect of a general amnesty – are widely embraced by a large swath of the American electorate.
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Ingall traces the image's provenance to various elements of midcentury America, including, she concedes, a post-Holocaust anxiety — there's nothing like living in the shadow of a genocide to make moms cleave to their kids a little tighter — as well as the ascent of male Jewish novelists, comedians and television writers who were desperate to assimilate into mainstream society and spewed their mommy issues across the page, stage and screen.
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Bad for American citizens, who see their wages driven downward and are vulnerable to a dangerous criminal element; bad for legal immigrants, who played by the rules and saw that effort mocked by others who essentially cheated and were rewarded; and bad for the new arrivals, many of whom are ill-equipped to assimilate into American life and face the prospect of grinding poverty and long-term government dependence.
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