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I don’t follow Star Trek. What does it mean in real life?

• hef19898 3y ago
  Assimilation is a one way street: the new arrivals give up everything they were and had beforey they become exactly like everyone else at the place they arrive. Integration is a two way street: The new arrivals retain their identity, but adapt to the new environment and society while the new society also adapts to the new arrivals. The latter is what works, the former not so much.
  • huytersd 3y ago
    Okay then I mean assimilation. Not integration.
    • hef19898 3y ago
      May I ask you why?
      • huytersd 3y ago
        Because a country has built up a culture and a character and that’s what has historically worked for the people in those countries. I’d much rather see, for instance, an African or an Arab in lederhosen in Germany speaking fluent German and a German in a disdasha in the Middle East speaking Arabic than some sort of one to one association between race/ethnicity and culture.