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

The main constituents are unassimilable parts of the food, on which the digestive process has no effect, and other portions, quite nutritious, but which have escaped digestion, also certain waste matters, &c.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various