> Past the third generation, minorities stop being minorities. False. Native Americans and Hispanics do not fully assimilate in the United State, ever. We ha

> Past the third generation, minorities stop being minorities. False. Native Americans and Hispanics do not fully assimilate in the United State, ever. We have five generations of data. Globally there are many other examples. In fact, the data show that after the third generation Hispanic educational attainment regresses. You cannot compare what's happening now to the past experience in the US of assimilating waves of western European ethnicities. At the very least there's the critical difference of very long periods of virtually zero immigration in the past. > In 50 years, all this "ZOMG Muslims!" mania is going to look equally dumb. In France in the 1890s there was a bunch of alarmism about how the German birthrate was so much higher and this posed a big threat. Of course, it all blew over and Germany never ever bothered France again and the alarmists looked dumb. > No one freaks out (here in the US) about the Polish Menace any more, nor about what all those greasy catholics... There is a certain fundamental incompatibility between The West and Islam. There are a lot of Hindus in the West, you know, and nobody really has big issues with them. The comparison to Catholic immigration is ridiculous. You can sing "It's a Small World" all you want, but back here in the real world there are deep differences between cultures.