My bad...I meant Somalians.
I give a shit, because it radicalises a new generation. You told me that by the second generation the children become integrated but I can tell you that clearly isn't the case with many sadly. The Danes have the right idea, you should do the same in the US and likewise here with new immigrants.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/3/17525960/denmark-children-immigrant-muslim-danish-ghetto
It certainly indicates a lack of intent to assimilate. That happens here a lot to with first generation immigrants and some are militant about preserving their childrens cultural heritage of their homelands but inevitably they fail about as soon as their kids start public schools. Public Schools, at least here n the US, are the great assimilators.
We have a lot of Ethiopian Muslims here in Cbus and the first generation women about half wear the Hijab in public and about half wear western dress. Their kids rarely ever wear the Hijab. I will say this about Ethiopian women....they are quite attractive. Most the ones I've met have slim, willowy figures with very attractive facial features.
Ethiopians > Somalians
People should be able to preserve their history and not have to assimilate.
It certainly indicates a lack of intent to assimilate. That happens here a lot to with first generation immigrants and some are militant about preserving their childrens cultural heritage of their homelands but inevitably they fail about as soon as their kids start public schools. Public Schools, at least here n the US, are the great assimilators.
We have a lot of Ethiopian Muslims here in Cbus and the first generation women about half wear the Hijab in public and about half wear western dress. Their kids rarely ever wear the Hijab. I will say this about Ethiopian women....they are quite attractive. Most the ones I've met have slim, willowy figures with very attractive facial features.
America is on its way to becoming predominantly nonwhite.
In today's news
Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the Colonial period, the U.S. has been predominantly white.
But the white share of the U.S. population has been dropping, from a little under 90% in 1950 to 60% in 2018. It will likely drop below 50% in another 25 years.
White nationalists want America to be white again. But this will never happen. America is on its way to becoming predominantly nonwhite.
https://theconversation.com/the-us-white-majority-will-soon-disappear-forever-115894
Banjo Fuck has to look up to the parasites that eat whale shit at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
That nub at the top of his spinal cord that attempts to serve as his brain is insufficient for him to realize that he's not superior to anybody or anything that has ever existed.
Immigration is not a right, it's a privilege. We have the right to set standards for immigration including refugee immigration.
Why, because it's our country, not theirs.
We expect assimilation...if you want to remain in your dark enclaves, do it in your own countries, not ours.
We expect you to learn English and not be a burden on American taxpayers.
We expect you to adopt our values of freedom, hard work and obedience to our laws.
If you don't want to accept our standards, fine. Remain in your own country.
Why, because it's our country, not theirs.
Immigration is not a right, it's a privilege. We have the right to set standards for immigration including refugee immigration.
Why, because it's our country, not theirs.
We expect assimilation...if you want to remain in your dark enclaves, do it in your own countries, not ours.
We expect you to learn English and not be a burden on American taxpayers.
We expect you to adopt our values of freedom, hard work and obedience to our laws.
If you don't want to accept our standards, fine. Remain in your own country.
Why, because it's our country, not theirs.
You can do whatever you want. If you want to stay isolated then knock yourself out. But there’s a reason millions upon millions of people from all over the globe have immigrated to this country and chose to “join” our society and become Americans.
Nobody is isolating themselves. Not everybody wants to be a conservative American.
Actually Earl plenty of people come to our country and don’t assimilate. For just one example Chinatown in San Francisco is just blocks from me and you see plenty of folks who can’t speak English and probably rarely leave Chinatown’s boundaries. We don’t tell them they can’t be hear.
It kind of defeats the purpose of coming here if you don’t want to be an American but people who come here and can do what they want and that’s the beauty of this country. I get that it can be difficult for someone who comes here at a later age in life and give up everything you know from a past life. It’s like Mott said the kids of the immigrants are the ones who often assimilate better because America is what they know.
With that being said there is a line as I was talking on an individual basis above. There are folks here who argue large groups of people shouldn’t assimilate. If they get their wish then we cease to be the America that we know because the beauty of our country is someone can come here from anywhere on the globe and be an American. It’s not like that in other countries.
Piss off. You do not know jack shit about immigration or immigrants.
I do not think my grandmother ever spoke more than a few dozen words of English even after two decades of living in New York and Montreal.
Russian was always my father's first and prefered language.
All his close friends were Russian immigrant, the Russian immigrant community stayed close knit, and made it a point to keep many of their cultural practices.
My father made it a point that myself and siblings first language we learned was not going to be English.
It is effortless for first generation immigrants to be loyal Americans, but still make concerted efforts to maintain their cultural heritage and to congregate with other like-minded fellow first generation immigrants. First generation immigrants, in my experience, are the most patriotic and loyal citizens.
Wrapping up: I would put my family's contributions to our communities, to our economy, and to our nation up against any buck-toothed, slack-jawed, barely educated Trump book-licker.