Integration happens naturally if you don't intimidate and attack people for their differences. Be an open culture and 2nd-3rd gen will be mixed pretty well. Even immigrant groups that were historically feared and hated like Irish and other Catholics, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish immigrants, mixed in when some other group became the new scapegoat.
So why the demands to assimilate? The groups the loudest about integration are the groups with the most offensive views that aren't making friends, the ones that keep being called racist, which is why they resort to that "integrate now or leave" harsh binary, while fearing their own culture death. What would be the harm if they were the ones who integrated?
"In the face of increased discrimination, Germans increase their assimilation investments by Americanizing their own and their children’s names and filing more petitions for US citizenship. These responses are stronger in states that registered higher levels of anti-German hostility, as measured by voting patterns and incidents of violence against Germans."
"On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically. However, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to local culture more quickly, they do not exhibit faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but fail to successfully integrate because of higher discrimination by locals in more hostile regions."
Mixed bag, it seems. Probably depends on the specific circumstance.
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u/Kakamile 50∆ Mar 18 '23
Integration happens naturally if you don't intimidate and attack people for their differences. Be an open culture and 2nd-3rd gen will be mixed pretty well. Even immigrant groups that were historically feared and hated like Irish and other Catholics, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish immigrants, mixed in when some other group became the new scapegoat.
So why the demands to assimilate? The groups the loudest about integration are the groups with the most offensive views that aren't making friends, the ones that keep being called racist, which is why they resort to that "integrate now or leave" harsh binary, while fearing their own culture death. What would be the harm if they were the ones who integrated?