Assimilationism operates as solipsistic narcissism that cannot recognize otherness

Evidence

As Clarke puts it, through the perpetuation and provision of meaning, ideology ‘creates a form of order, who we are, or perhaps more precisely who we are not, by the stigmatisation, marginalisation and intolerance associated with this’. Symbolic forms and the meaning made known through them create and sustain the relationships of power and interaction between the ingroup and outgroup: the self and the Other. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833 (#expands, via linked claim)

It thus appears that the moral maxim never to use a man as a mere means is actually the formula of every sociation. Where the significance of the one party sinks so low that its effect no longer enters the relationship with the other, there is as little ground for speaking of sociation as there is in the case of the carpenter and his bench. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 322 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilation paradoxically produced Jewish chauvinism rather than dissolving it; Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy; Full cultural assimilation cannot erase ineradicable traces of another place (+6 more)

Related

• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other (similarity 0.82)
• Contemporary national self-definition debates operate through the othering process (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other #expands (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833
• Full cultural assimilation cannot erase ineradicable traces of another place #qualifies (0.75)
• Treating another as a mere means abolishes sociation itself #complicates (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 322