Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who advocates or works for social integration.
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- noun An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social)
integration , usually aiming for (more)equality .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Ching dynasty emperor Kangxi saw Wang's "integrationist" approach as symbolic of his own unifying reign, and no doubt as a useful instrument of self-celebration for posterity.
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It's so hard for me to keep in my mind that "integrationist" was just such a horrible word at that time.
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But a well thought-out strategy can address the concerns of neocontainment advocates while retaining core "integrationist" principles, which from a long-term perspective are fundamentally sound.
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Each of the schools also will have a half-time "integrationist" who will assess and work with newly arrived military students to help them quickly get comfortable in their new school environment.
Gazette.com : 2009
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France has been integrationist, maintaining secularism as a principle, banning religious symbols in schools and adopting state-driven consultations with Muslims.
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For the less instinctively integrationist countries, and in particular Britain, this was all too far and too fast.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Simple arithmatic shows that massive unskilled immigration is utterly killing the integrationist dreams of progressives in the cradle and 99% of them don't even realize it.
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And it was Lewis who fought, unsuccessfully, to keep the movement grounded in its nonviolent, integrationist roots.
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Even the Chelsea of Roman Abramovich's early years were more gradual, more integrationist.
Manchester City's disparate stars unite to change the script 2011
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A fallacy that has grown over the years is that there were three distinct Malcolms: the street thug, the white-hating demagogue and, after his split with the NOI, a liberal integrationist who was in essence a slightly more outspoken Dr King.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable – review 2011
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