Sentence:  As both Yu Yonghe and Huang Shujing recognized, racialist discourse was incongrous with the Confucian ideal of <WSD>transformationalism</WSD>, for the claim that barbarians possessed distinct inborn natures, or fixed moral characters, suggested that they were unassimilable. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The belief in the transformative power of Confucian culture as a superior system that can be universally applied to all people.