unassimilable

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Portuguese- speaking Brazilians regarded the Japanese people, who resisted becoming bilingual and maintained schools and newspapers in their own language, as unassimilable, and in 1923 the government imposed a strict quota on immigrants from Japan.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

We’re not unassimilable; we all become part of the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

But those “plumes of oil rushing out of a cracked earth and into the sea’s ghostly depths” seemed of another order, unassimilable to his generally imperturbable worldview.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2020

There is something at once mind-blowing and unassimilable about the phenomenon.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

We live in the zone of perpetual pie and dough-nut; and our girls revel in those unassimilable abominations.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond