unassimilable
adjective
un·as·sim·i·la·ble
ˌən-ə-ˈsi-mə-lə-bəl 
: not able to be taken in or absorbed : not capable of being assimilated
… misfits … and revolutionaries deemed unassimilable by mainstream culture—
James Traub
James Trauban unassimilable ideology
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The ethnoburb is where Asian immigrants settled to be safe from whiteness, to build our own sense of home, and to stay unassimilable.
—Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
The forming of us as alien beings, as diseased vermin, as engagers in practices that were disgusting and vile and unassimilable into the American mainstream.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
With no preparation beforehand or discussion after, the teenagers saw mounds of emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves, and other unassimilable horrors.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
In the years after the Civil War, both Republicans and Democrats portrayed the Chinese arriving on the Pacific Coast as an invading horde, a heathen, unassimilable people.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
This approach has raised anew the bugbear of the unassimilable Other in our midst.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
Moreover, conscripts returning from the war had to reassume civilian identities, thus introducing a troubling doubling of their own psyches: such extraordinary memories were quite simply unassimilable by their quotidian minds.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
Many perceived the Chinese to be a heathen race, unassimilable and alien to the American way of life.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
Right until the moment his life was extinguished, his art was truculent, bold, arresting and unassimilable.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
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Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
The forming of us as alien beings, as diseased vermin, as engagers in practices that were disgusting and vile and unassimilable into the American mainstream.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
With no preparation beforehand or discussion after, the teenagers saw mounds of emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves, and other unassimilable horrors.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
In the years after the Civil War, both Republicans and Democrats portrayed the Chinese arriving on the Pacific Coast as an invading horde, a heathen, unassimilable people.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
This approach has raised anew the bugbear of the unassimilable Other in our midst.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
Moreover, conscripts returning from the war had to reassume civilian identities, thus introducing a troubling doubling of their own psyches: such extraordinary memories were quite simply unassimilable by their quotidian minds.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
Many perceived the Chinese to be a heathen race, unassimilable and alien to the American way of life.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
Right until the moment his life was extinguished, his art was truculent, bold, arresting and unassimilable.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
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