#assimilation — Public Fediverse posts

"Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

“Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/returning-review-jewish-roots-in-the-south-294d4c34

“I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

https://forward.com/culture/books/813970/returning-a-search-for-home-across-three-centuries-nicholas-lemann-new-orleans-jewish-history/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Encore le régime caquiste...
🔸 Projet de constitution québécoise
▶️ Un « processus d’assimilation », dénoncent des chefs autochtones
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2026-02-05/projet-de-constitution-quebecoise/un-processus-d-assimilation-denoncent-des-chefs-autochtones.php
#Autochtones #colonialisme #constitution #politique #PremièresNations #Inuit #société #diplomatie #Assembléenationale #APNQL #AnQ #assimilation #média #Québec #CAQ

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 -

I've never done anything but love my experiences with Erdrich's words and worlds. And somehow, this one slipped past me. Maybe, even, worth a 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast episode later this week?

#books #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #louiseerdrich #thenightwatchman #fiction #novel #indigenousliterature #IndianTerminationAct #TribalSovereignty #Dispossession #Assimilation #ojibwaliterature

#bookwyrm #30daybookchallenge - Day 30 - Last Book Read - To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose #CulturalIdentity #colonialism #assimilation #MagicSchool #dragons #DragonRiders #YAFantasy #yafiction #indigenous #booksky #booktok #Bookstagram #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

New video: Watch Ayse Guveli from the University of #Warwick in our #CPCCGWebinar from last week. She discussed the 2000 #Families and The Third Generation projects which aim to reveal the consequences and the long-term impact of #migration on #migrants from Turkey and on their three #generation #descendants by comparing them to their non-migrant counterparts in #Turkey:

https://youtu.be/Ngobm5I-mh0?si=TQ608VQkCa0wXayB&t=1

#demography #sociology #inequality #education #labourmarkets #genderroles #religiosity #assimilation

Monsters and Humanity in Fiction with Surekha Davies

Monsters and Humanity in Fiction with Surekha Davies – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 177 *** “It all started with too…
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/11/03/monsters-and-humanity-in-fiction-with-surekha-davies

#HOWTOWRITETHEFUTUREPODCAST #16thcenturyexploration #Americas #ancientknowledge #assimilation

Journée de la vérité et de la réconciliation
🔸 Des centaines de personnes réunies à Montréal
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2025-09-30/journee-de-la-verite-et-de-la-reconciliation/des-centaines-de-personnes-reunies-a-montreal.php
#Autochtones #vérité #réconciliation #racisme #génocide #pensionnats #enfants #assimilation #langue #culture #gouvernement #église #religion #politique #société #Montréal #Québec #Canada

Why I thought loving white men was safer—and what it took to love myself instead - Charles Orgbon III

https://www.pride.com/culture/perspectives/charles-orgbon-iii

#lgbtq #assimilation #selfloathing #internalizedracism #interracial #conformity

How normalised is his mushroom on the squeezed end of the bell curve? With extreme poverty on the left and privileged ICE poverty on the right, it won’t work well. All thanks to a delusional tea party to be mimicked but on bad odds by Reform in the U.K., the AfD in Germany and VOX in Spain etc. #TranshumanistData #DataTheft #GDPR #Normalisation #Assimilation #TheBorg #TheFederation

@mrandelbot

#StarWarsANewHope
#OpeningSceneOfSpaceHorrorMovie
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#TheThingFromAnotherWorld
#Assimilation
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"

#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot

#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code

Erasing Tibetan culture, one child at a time.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/09/world/asia/tibet-china-boarding-schools.html

Separation of 1 million Tibetan children from families and forced assimilation.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and

#tibetan #culture #language #erasing #assimilation

#ColonialCrimes : World #Map of #Justice Initiatives.

“Don’t portray us as a band of beggars coming to demand reparation. […] I think the Europeans have obligations to us, like all the unfortunate, but especially to us for harms that they caused. That is what I call reparation.” These words of Aimé Césaire, renowned Martinican author of “Discourse on Colonialism”, still resonate everywhere in the world 71 years after they were published.

The issue concerns 70% of the world’s population, either as a citizen of a colonizing country or as one of the colonized, according to French #history professor Bouda Etemad, author of the book “Crimes and Reparations, the West faced with its colonial past”. The colonized and their descendants, he writes, have the right to demand #reparation from the #European powers for the harms these States committed over a period of 500 years, from the “discovery” of #America by Christopher #Colombus to independence in the second half of the 20th century. Forced labour, slavery, persecution, executions, extermination, bombardments, looting and forced cultural #assimilation: the list is long of violent #abuses that accompanied #colonization in #Africa, the Near East, #Asia, the Americas, #Oceania and northern #Europe.

This special focus concentrates on the period known as the “second #colonial empire” which from 1815 marked the new #expansionism of the Western powers until the wave of independence in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colonial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html

#Legal #InternationalLaw #Decolonization #Landback #UNDRIP #ColonialTheft #ColonialExploitation #ColonialViolence #Injustices #TruthBeforeReconciliation #GlobalSouth #geopolitics

"#FrenchBoy tells the unique story of an expatriate community, one which was initially French, then became French-Canadian, then Franco-American, and today, perhaps just American."

#FrenchCanadians in America with #DenisLedoux

https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/french-canadians-in-america-with-denis-ledoux/

#CanadiensFrançais #FrancoAmericans #FrancoAméricains #FrancoAméricanie #FrancoAmerica #LaGrandeHémorragie #AmériqueFrancophone #NouvelleAngleterre #assimilation #livres #books #mémoires #memoirs @DoomsdaysCW @bookstodon

#Kahnistensera / #MohawkMothers File in #SupremeCourtOfCanada in Search for #UnmarkedGraves of Their Children

Posted on October 15, 2024, Mohawk Nation News

"After the 'opening words that come before' at the rally, these were the words of a Mohawk #KnowledgeKeeper: 'We find ourselves in the ongoing violation of the #TeiohatehTwoRow, which is the agreement made between us in the beginning of our relationship. We have tried to alert the #Crown that there is a violation going on which places both of us in rough waters. Today we stand in front the Supreme Court of Canada facing a political violation by the people of #Canada that we wish to discuss so that we may get #justice"

Source and videos:
https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/15/mohawk-mothers-file-in-supreme-court-of-canada-oct-15-24/

#NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide #UnmarkedGraves #StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools #Assimilation #ChildAbuse

#SixtiesScoop #activist Katherine Strongwind called the move from #RCMP an “insult.”

She said there is “nothing #Indigenous about the RCMP.”

“They can hire Indigenous people but it doesn’t change their many #HumanRights violations and their continued role in #MMIWG. #RibbonSkirts are #sacred & not to be associated with #genocide,” she said, adding whoever thought of the idea should be fired.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10522368/rcmp-ribbon-skirt-insulting-indigenous-activists/amp/

#CDNpoli #FirstNations #Colonialism #Assimilation #NativeCanada #Canada

Nathalie (en 2015) : "J’ai des enfants à nourrir, je cherche du travail, alors j’enlève mon foulard. Je n’ai pas le choix. Pas le choix." https://web.archive.org/web/20230608115430/http://contre-attaques.org/magazine/article/paroles-de-175

#accepter #renoncement #colonialité #assimilation #patriarcat #subalternes #dynamiqueIslamophobe #interdiction #mars2004 #islamophobie #fragilité #fragilitéBlanche #suprémacisme #suprémacismeBlanc #SuprématieBlanche #violenceDÉtat #travail #racismeDÉtat #decoloniale #intersectionalité

Today is the anniversary of the victory of a militant struggle in France.
White men of left and right coordinated to push young brown and black women back to their rightful place: subaltern.

October 2003: Lycée Henri Wallon in Aubervilliers expelled two sisters for wearing headscarves. A deafening political and media controversy ensued. The polemic obtained a law enacted on 15 March 2004, that banned girls wearing headscarves from schools.

Nathalie (in 2015): "I have children to feed and I’m looking for work, so I’m taking off my headscarf. I have no choice. No choice."

I explained in #French in 2014: http://citoyen.eu.org/doc/blanctriarcat.php

@patriarchy @histodons @supremacy

#cultureWars #moralPanic #France #FRPol #unitary #secularism #victory #militancy #laïcité #hijab #Mélenchon #SocDem #WomensSRights #patriarchy #WhiteFeminism #raceMaking #racialization #islamophobia #stateRacism #fragility #WhiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #work #acceptance #renunciation #coloniality #assimilation #patriarchy #subaltern #culture #decolonial #intersectionality

"As for the wind farms, the #Sámi already fought and won their case in court in 2021 [AND YET THAT OUTCOME IS BEING IGNORED!], thirteen years after they first began advocating against the wind farms’ construction. Ironically, the government set up a #TruthAndReconciliation Commission in 2018, not only to investigate the state’s assimilation policy and its consequences, but also to establish measures promoting greater equality for minorities in Norway. The investigation is soon to be published.

"When it came to removing the wind turbines, Sámi people have had to resort to civil disobedience to get the government’s attention. On February 23, protesters occupied the reception area of the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and blocked the entrances of several other government departments across Oslo.

“'#IndigenousRights are #HumanRights. You can’t weigh them against anything else,' says sixteen-year-old Jostein Tennø Loe, a socialist youth board representative. He was among the first activists to be arrested outside the Ministry of Finance. As they were carried away, passersby could hear the sound of #joik, the traditional Sámi singing once suppressed by the government’s #assimilation efforts. 'When #Norway, as a democratic state, ignores human rights and ignores the supreme court five hundred days after the ruling, something is deeply wrong,' Jostein says. For the Sámi, who are no strangers to conflict over land, the court’s ruling in their favor came a century too late — but the five hundred days that followed were nothing but a slap in the face.

"Not only is #ReindeerHerding a significant part of their culture — it’s also a crucial arena for the Sámi people of #Fosen to practice their language. Considering that the Norwegian government is single-handedly responsible for pushing the language to the brink of extinction, the prime minister’s lack of remorse was damning."

#CulturalGenocide #SamiPeople #Resistance #IndigenousPeople #ShameOnNorway

Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image

By Martine Aamodt Hess

March 13, 2023

"On March 1, global media outlets reported that #GretaThunberg had been arrested in #Oslo while protesting #WindTurbines. It wasn’t that the #ClimateActivist had suddenly taken a stand against renewable energy. Rather, she had joined forces with #activists standing up for #IndigenousPeople ’s plea to be able to continue practicing their culture in #Fosen, central #Norway. For hundreds of years, this land has been home to #ReindeerHerders — an important tradition, which helps preserve the Sámi’s endangered language. Yet today, the siting in Fosen of wind turbines, which frighten the reindeer, puts its continuation in doubt.

"Some five hundred days ago, #Norway’s supreme court ruled that the turbines are a violation of #IndigenousRights under international conventions. Yet they are still running even now — and indeed, even after the ebbing of the short-lived news attention surrounding Thunberg’s role in the protest. Once again, the Norwegian government has proven that it remains indifferent to Sámi lives.

"'What’s happening in Norway doesn’t surprise me — [there’s] this double standard of working to protect #indigenous groups around the world and presenting itself as this #progressive nation, yet not giving a shit about the indigenous people living within its own borders,' Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi tells me. Between reindeer herding and her studies, the twenty-two-year-old is the leader of the Sámi Parliament’s youth committee and is a board member of the Norwegian Sámi Association youth group. During the recent eight days of protest in Oslo, she stood arm in arm with her Sámi sisters and brothers. “We are used to it but that doesn’t make it any less unjust. It’s about time Norway drops the mask. It’s about time the rest of the world sees Norway for what it really is,' she says.

"From the outside looking in, the Scandinavian country is often seen as a progressive social democracy. But — as Elle’s comments suggest — a story far less told is that of its #colonial past, also striking at indigenous people in Norway itself."

Read more:
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sami-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest

#CulturalGenocide #Assimilation #IndigenousPeople #SamiPeople #SamiResistance #Colonialism #LandBack #IndigenousResistance

#Norway truth commission details country's dark history of #assimilation

'Norway does not have a history to be proud of' on minority rights, commissioner says

"In state-run #BoardingSchools, minority languages were forbidden, leading to their steep decline. Repeatedly, entire villages [of #Sami and #Finnish-speaking peoples] were forcibly relocated, with devastating results for culture."

by John Last · CBC News · Posted: Jun 02, 2023

"In an ornate assembly hall of the Storting, Norway's parliament, Dagfinn Hoybraten, chair of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, presented his work of the last five years.

"'The truth is, Norway does not have a history to be proud of when it comes to the treatment of its minorities,' he said Thursday.

"Before national media and dignitaries from Norway's minority groups, Hoybraten formally tabled the commission's final report, detailing the impacts of a 'comprehensive assimilation policy' — known as Norwegianization — which pursued 'the fastest possible linguistic and cultural assimilation' of #Indigenous and #Finnish-descended minorities over more than a century.

"'This dark side of Norwegian history has continued to cast shadows into our own time,' Hoybraten said. 'It is now time for a settlement regarding the nation's injustice'"

"Norway's commission took direct inspiration from Canada's process, with members visiting the National Centre for #TruthAndReconciliation in Winnipeg to study how the commission operated.

"The Norwegian commission's work has not been without controversy. Before the publication of the final report, several groups expressed concerns that the commission was too secretive about its work, and feared its recommendations would lack real teeth.

"Yet community leaders present at Thursday's ceremony generally voiced cautious optimism about the 700-page final report. 'I'm very excited,' said Kai Petter Johansen, leader of the Norwegian Kven Association, a linguistic minority group.

"'I think that it is promising,' said Runar Myrnes Balto, a member of the governing council of Norway's #Samediggi or Sami Parliament. 'I think it's important now that the parliament, quickly, invites us to a meeting, to talk about the best possible way to take the next steps.'

"The Sami are Europe's only recognized Indigenous group, occupying a broad swathe of Arctic territory spanning from Norway to Russia. Norway is home to their largest community, comprising around 65,000 people."

Read more:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norway-indigenous-sami-truth-commission-final-report-1.6862471

#SamiPeople #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousEuropeans

Legislation to amend #IndianAct continues #discrimination

What we learn from this story:
• Clauses in Bill C-38 will not allow victims of Cda’s #assimilation policies to seek reparations
• “Two-parent rule continues Canada’s program of forced assimilation.” —Lori Idlout, MP
• Cda discrimination “underscores the sense of colonial entitlement.” –Jenny Kwan, MP
• Bill allows individuals, specifically #Métis, to remove names from Indian register and band list.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/proposed-legislation-amend-indian-act-continues-discrimination-its-designed

#indigenous

Comm for VanessaDementa! Agent wanted a cuddle session while gaming, and I was more than happy to oblige in my own way ~

• I have my own telegram art channel! (18+) t.me/TrevorFoxArt
• Comm form and other places to find me: linktr.ee/Trevor_Fox

#trevor_fox, #transformation, #tf, #transfur, #merging, #merge, #blushing, #blush_lines, #blush, #assimilation, #human, #mouse, #rodent, #game_controller, #cuddling, #pants, #shoes, #paws, #brown_fur, #mid_transformation, #buckteeth, #trevor_fox_(character), #anthro, #furry

"Inès le sait maintenant, on ne s'intègre pas à une culture. On se dépossède de la sienne, on disparaît. S'intégrer, c'est tordre le familier en soi, admettre que sa culture est inférieure : c'est se coloniser soi-même."

écrit Aïcha Béchir dans son roman "L'accusation"

#dépossession #traîtrise #intégration #assimilation #citation #colonialité #mérite #antiRacisme #lectureDécoloniale

#Gespräch mit #Rolf
#Wahl eines #Text​es zum #lesen und #bearbeiten: #Galileo #Galilei #Unterredung und #mathematisch​e #Demonstration​en: #Wissenszweig​e #Mechanik und #Fallgesetz​e betreffend.

#Experiment​e als #vorwissenschaftlich zu #Hypothese​n: #Abstraktion fließt ein.

Seit #1200: #Siechenhaus: #Beginn #totale​r #Institution; #Soziale #Arbeit als #Erweiterung des #Soziale​n.

#Dialog VS. #Diskussion: #Perfide bei #Sokrates

#Assimilation & #Akkommodation // #Zugehörigkeit