Definition of "assimilationist"

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

1998, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, Jerome A. Chanes, A Portrait of the American Jewish Community, page xii

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.

1999, Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain‎, page 147

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

2000, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism‎, page 224

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.

2000, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China‎, page 62

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

2011, Peter Scholten, Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective‎, page 187

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

2012, Robert Consedine, Joana Consedine, Healing Our History, page 22

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.

2015, Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism‎, page 224