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Because people, unlike water, can assimilate. On large scales, this is more common than threatening cultural change.
by KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago
Because people, unlike water, can assimilate. On large scales, this is more common than threatening cultural change.
- geebee 14y agoInteresting observation, but do you see the irony in your claim considering that you wrote "citation needed" earlier? I actually don't think a "citation" is what is needed in either case, though it would probably be a good idea to provide a little more discussion of a potentially controversial statement.
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- eli_gottlieb 14y agoQuite the opposite way around. Immigrants who form a small minority in their destination society assimilate within one generation, or even one decade if they're lucky. Immigrants who arrive in or into massive waves or blocs tend to form semi-self-sufficient sub-societies within the destination country. These sub-societies have a disturbingly common tendency to become political fifth-columnists in the second generation, when a whole cohort of children grow up hearing idiotically romanticized stories about The Old Country and decide to impose its better, folksier ways on the new country by political activism.