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You missed the next two sentences which paint the complete picture: >In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation
by bduerst 7y ago
You missed the next two sentences which paint the complete picture:
>In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross‐cutting forms of social solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustrations of becoming comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious institutions, and earlier waves of American immigration.
- Spellman 7y agoIn short, short-term pain and long-term gains.
- nostromo 7y agoThat's not what the study says. It's more: short-term pain and maybe (hopefully) less pain in the long-term. Besides, I'm not sure how applicable the examples given in the study are to a modern nation state. (You can't run a nation like a military, and religion and nationalism are on the decline, so those are probably not sources of future social cohesion either.)
- deogeo 7y agoThese 'more encompassing identities' have limited applicability. For example, Polish-, English-, and German-Americans no longer view themselves as separate from each-other, but they still see themselves as separate from African- and Asian-Americans. They've all been in the US for a few centuries now, so it's not limited to a short-term effect. If you look at other parts of the world, the development of more encompassing identities is anything but guaranteed. From the Bosniaks, Uyghurs, or Roma, groups can live side by side for centuries, without developing joint identities, or developing very fragile ones.
- zarkov99 7y agoSo pretty much the opposite of the identity BS that drives so much of the culture war.
- buboard 7y agoin the long run, there is peace. in the short run ...