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I think you're overestimating how sensitive immigrants are to this stuff. Comarriage is way more about preserving their family culture than it is about finding
by hot_gril 3y ago
I think you're overestimating how sensitive immigrants are to this stuff. Comarriage is way more about preserving their family culture than it is about finding someone accepting. Religion and spoken-at-home language will matter.
Sizeable chunks of some immigrant populations simply won't melt, which IMO is fine in a place like Canada or the US. They'll still work with everyone else, and I feel like profession and class are both way bigger dividers than ethnicity anyway. A white SWE probably knows more Indian SWEs than white janitors.
- howinteresting 3y agoReligion is somewhat a concern, but it's completely dwarfed by issues around the religiosity of non-immigrant populations. Speaking a different language at home is a really good thing. Kids are going to pick up English through immersion anyway, so they're going to turn out bi/multilingual. That's great.
- hot_gril 3y agoSo, most of my extended family is from the Middle East, mostly Christian with some Muslim in-laws. My understanding is that those immigrant groups are far more religious and traditional than the average non-immigrant (though less than the extreme parts), which of course I'm fine with cause they're my own. But I'm not sure what you're expecting from them.
- howinteresting 3y agoI'm not expecting anything from them! Just pointing out that the actual problem with religion in, say, the US, is white Christian nationalism, with fundamentalist Islam a distant second.
- hot_gril 3y agoOh, yeah. But anything that's only 1% won't have much effect.
- howinteresting 3y ago(By the way, I do think immigrants integrating into society is a moral good! I'm very left-wing and it's one of my most conservative beliefs. But the burden of that should be on the hegemonic/native-born population, not on immigrant communities.)