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Keith Ngwa's avatar

This shows how out of touch with reality Richard Hanania and other Classical Liberal are about assimilation into Western Civilization

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Fractal Inklings's avatar

All fair and good points. I will note that this does often seem to boil down to time and critical mass. Mexicans never really stayed in significant quantities to form while neighborhoods that also had mass citizenship for quite a while if I recall, unless it was so close to the border like in the Rio grande valley that those towns were desperately poor anyway. Jim Crow surely had a massive impact on blacks until relatively recently. So sure the lack of progress since say the 1960s is a sign assimilation also may fail but that's not to say it won't eventually get there. Candidly I think intermarriage is part of the key. Italians and Irish moved in sufficient numbers they could provide wholesale support systems down to the church from eventually the bank. They also moved to industrial hotspots far earlier than any blacks or Mexicans did, which I think also is a contributing factor. Again, not really disagreeing just think there is important context to also note.

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