unassimilable
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈsɪmɪləbəl/
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no asimilable
- Significantly, the conference promoted an image of the Chinese as solid American citizens, not unassimilable foreigners.
- unassimilable aliens
Examples
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Italians and the Irish, to name two ethnic groups that were also formerly considered "other" and unassimilable.
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As Mexican immigration increased, fears of a foreign invasion of cheap, unassimilable laborers similar to the Chinese one rippled throughout the nativist literature.
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What I felt was that it was incumbent upon me to manufacture difference, to make myself as distinct and unassimilable as possible.
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The need to find enough competent hands to run the complex economy meant that in the home offices of the corporations, faces from "unassimilable" groups began to appear and, indeed, be assimilated.
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Yet none of them prevented the craft unions from declaring the Chinese "race" unassimilable, nor from supporting exclusionary legislation premised largely on racial grounds.
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Next, they criticized the mercenary practices of transportation companies and resource industries, accusing them of dumping the unfit and unassimilable on Canadian shores.
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Just as in the United States at that time, they were often seen as "swarthy," primitive, and unassimilable—a categorization that only gradually dissolved.
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Some communities are seen as unassimilable because their customs and traditions differ greatly from the dominant culture.
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The concept of being unassimilable raises questions about the integration of diverse cultures in society.
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Many believed that the new immigrants were unassimilable due to their different languages and lifestyles.
Synonyms
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So different that people cannot agree
Unable to become part of a group, culture, or system
Not able to be taken in by a system or organization
Cannot be added to a larger system or product
How Assimilable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unassimilable = assimilable (transparent) = un + assimilate + able
Built by straightforward prefixation (un-) of 'assimilable', which itself is clearly 'assimilate' + '-able'.
Etymology
Unassimilable is built from un- 'not' and assimilable, from a root that means 'make similar' and is the same root as similar. So a cultural practice or person called unassimilable is seen as someone or something that cannot 'fit in' or be absorbed into a group or system.