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"ethic-neuveau-ghettos .. insulating themselves rather than assimilating" Usually the kids assimilate pretty well, and thats mostly how it works, has always wor
by bluishgreen 12y ago
"ethic-neuveau-ghettos .. insulating themselves rather than assimilating" Usually the kids assimilate pretty well, and thats mostly how it works, has always worked with non-europeans. You can't expect these people to wake up one morning, and do a running jump while yelling 'muricaaa!!' and assimilate in a flash. From my experience, most of them want their kids to assimilate while setting up personal thresholds for themselves as to how much they can/want to buy in. You'd be surprised, the country can learn a thing or two from these peoples, for eg. many of these folks come from places where evolution is common sense, and high-schools don't give people life long depressions from which people never recover.
- davidw 12y agoOne only need look at San Francisco's "little Italy", which is not in any sense an Italian neighborhood any more, except sort of for tourist purposes. And yet people were really worried about Italians coming and taking jobs and being Catholic and all those other nasty immigrant things. It takes time, but the advantages to integrating far outweigh consigning your children to a ghetto.