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I'm sure you don't mean it this way but the "immigrants who don't assimilate" is both ahistorical and a (typically) white nativist talking point. It's ahistori
by jmyeet 2y ago
I'm sure you don't mean it this way but the "immigrants who don't assimilate" is both ahistorical and a (typically) white nativist talking point.
It's ahistorical in the sense that what population hasn't immersed after 2-3 generations? They're indistinguishable from any other American. As just one example, over half of CBP officers are Latino/Hispanic [1].
Plus, assimilate into what? Culture isn't static. What is US culture now is different than 40 years ago or 100 years ago or 200 years ago. When people (and again, to be clear, I mean generally not you specifically) they're clinging onto a flawed picture of what culture was or should be that was never really the case or, at best, was only the case for a very narrow window.
A prime example in online spaces is fetishizing the 1950s and it's hardly ever mentioned that women couldn't get certain jobs, what jobs they could get were severely underpaid compared to their male counterparts, the idyllic life was only possible because of a permanent underclass of lowly paid workers and the top marginal tax rate was 91%.
This is a deep topic. But "culture" is often used nowadays as a more polite label for "Islamophobia" and/or "racism". I would encourage you to look at who, politically, bangs that particular drum (eg AfD in Germany, Le Pen in France) and really consider the whole platform they're pushing, who it's for and why.
[1]: https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/26/fact-check-are-half-of-all-border-patrol-agents-hispanic https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/26/fact-check-are-half-o...