I find cultural enclaves to be both needed, sometimes dangerous, and in some cases disrespectful. It's needed, because often people bring their parents and gra

I find cultural enclaves to be both needed, sometimes dangerous, and in some cases disrespectful. It's needed, because often people bring their parents and grandparents over with them, to act as a support network to help prosper and raise children - its unreasonable to expect people older than 50 or so to learn english - nor is it practical. It becomes dangerous when you have second and third generation immigrants not learning english and joining the larger culture of whatever nation their parents or grandparents immigrated to - and its disrespectful, because frankly, my people moved here from the 'old county' (norway among other places) they didn't speak english, but they learned, and they wanted to join in all of the benefits of being a part of this new country of theirs. An example, I'm an American - if I moved to Spain or Germany, I'd want to participate as fully as I could in the culture and society of my newly adopted country, I'd want to localize myself to the my new found home, to me, its disrespectful to the hospitality of my new home country if I do not - it's as if they gave me a gift, and I'm not reciprocating by keeping up my part of the bargain by becoming a true citizen of that place. If I'd wanted to continue the old ways/if the old ways were working for me, I could just stay at home.