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Assimilation is a reality and it does not require gov't programs to happen and it didn't happen in the past because Ray incorrectly believes 'official' gov't business was conducted in English until sometime around 1969.
Fine-tuning Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“Assimilation is a crime against humanity,” he told the crowd.
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“Assimilation is a crime against humanity,” he told the crowd.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Assimilation, Turkish Style 2008
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Assimilation is a crime against humanity, he told the crowd.
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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“Assimilation is a crime against humanity,” he told the crowd.
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Assimilation is not an act but a process involving two partipants, with no specification as to which is active.
More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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Assimilation is a value-neutral term; it can be seen as either an active or passive process (to assimilate or to be assimilated), and the legitimacy of this process is a matter of individual judgement, with advocates and opponents in both dominant and marginal cultures able to meaningfully argue that "assimilation is good" or that "assimilation is bad".
More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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Assimilation is just the flip side of appropriation.
More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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Assimilation is more the norm in Europe than in the United States, but because of the right’s undying notion of a “melting pot,” they try to project a false idea of the problem rather than discussing the problem itself: that wherever there is serious ethnic tension in Western Europe, it is the result of white Europeans expecting their neighbors to conform to odd and old notions of national identity. nolaboyd Says:
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In a study to be released this week, titled "Assimilation Tomorrow," demographers Dowell Myers and John Pitkin of the University of Southern California track advances made by immigrants 20 years of age and older who arrived in the 1990s, based on the patterns of earlier waves who had been here a comparable amount of time and factoring in the recession.
Immigrants Are Still Fitting In Miriam Jordan 2011
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