de-ethnization

alternative de-ethnisation

1. uncountableThe act or process of ceasing to be, or of causing (a group) to cease to be, an ethnicity or a distinct people.

   Among the concrete reasons for the rapid de-ethnization of immigrants, Fishman cites the great appeal of the American mass culture, […]

   1999, David R. Andrews, Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora, →ISBN

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   From its earlier position as the vernacular of an entire religio-ethnic community it is now the vernacular only of atypical sub-groups who have not participated in the de-ethnization and acculturation of the general Jewish community.

   1991, Joshua A. Fishman, Yiddish: Turning to Life, →ISBN, page 143

   To question the wisdom or the necessity or the naturalness of the de-ethnization of immigrant populations strikes many as questioning the very legitimacy or the very possibility of America's national and cultural existence.

   2010, Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, Emilio Zamora, Beyond the Latino World War II Hero, →ISBN, page 184

2. uncountableThe act or process of severing or losing ethnic ties.

   Robins and Aksoy (2005) suggest that actually transnational media, and satellite television in particular, work in association with the process of de-ethnization and de-mythologization of the 'homeland'.

   2012, Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration, →ISBN, page 222

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   The separation of religion from life as a result of secularization, ritualization, and organizational primacy is what is most fundamentally involved in this retreat. Indeed, the forces leading to the de-ethnization of formerly ethnic religions […]

   1972, Joshua A. Fishman, Language in Sociocultural Change, →ISBN, page 69