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While these things are quite influential and continue to the appeal of American culture, they are unable to affect many core attitudes like capitalism, Manifest
by samus 4y ago
While these things are quite influential and continue to the appeal of American culture, they are unable to affect many core attitudes like capitalism, Manifest destiny, and other hallmarks of American navel-gazing.
- opportune 4y agoThey can and do influence internal politics and foreign policy quite heavily, for example Cuban immigrants are a large voting bloc in Florida, a swing state, which is a major reason that Democrats don’t just end the embargo on Cuba. Also one of the reasons Israel is so supported by the US is that a lot of Jewish US citizens lobby for it and care about it a lot. It’s a high bar to put capitalism (plus an obsolete concept and handwavy other things) as what immigrants need to overturn to have been considered influential to US culture, since in a lot of cases that is precisely what brings them to the country to begin with, and is like the main thing the US is known for.