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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a huge Afghani population that already lives & thrives in Nova. They are more likely to thrive here where they have a long standing community that speaks their languages and can help them navigate US bureaucracy, find jobs, learn English, etc. If you plop them in the middle of rural Nebraska, they will have a very difficult time adapting and assimilating. [/quote]

It is easier to assimilate if they do not have a huge Afghani population.  Then there is less need to learn English or American culture.  
A little different for Afghanistan with Taliban banning everything, but you can just watch foreign satellite service TV and read foreign language newspapers while shopping at groceries that cater to your food style.[/quote]
I have to ask.. how welcoming would the folks in the middle of NE be to a bunch of Afghan refugees who may be Muslims?

Also, as a child of immigrants, I can tell you that it's really hard for older people to eat foods that are completely foreign to them. Do you think they can find food in the middle of NE that fits their Afghani palates?  And the local grocery store probably wouldn't carry the same things that Afghanis are used to. I know when my parents came to the US, they found grocery shopping difficult at the local American store.  they eventually found a tiny (and I mean tiny) store that catered to that ethnic group.

I recall a movie based on a true story with Tommy Lee Jones playing a Vietnam War vet with his Vietnamese wife whom he brings to the states. His family serve a huge American meal, one that is considered "normal", peas, carrots, mash potatos, and the Vietnamese wife and kid just stare at it, and find it hard to eat.

Imagine if you went to some strange place and had to eat only the local food there.  You would find it hard.  My white ILs lived in the middle east for a while, and they did all their food shopping at the compound grocery store that sold western goods.  They would have found it very difficult to shop at the local grocery store.[/quote]

Exactly.  That's why assimilation will be quicker when it is harder to avoid.  Now consider the kids.  If it was harder to come by Afghan culture, they will assimilate quickly.  If instead they are eating Afghan meals everyday and watching Afghan TV at home and generally socializing with people who speak the same language, they will be less assimilated, especially if they don't go to public school because there was enough people that they were able to set up a religious school.[/quote]
 I suppose you think that the white government taking indigenous kids from their families to assimilate them into white culture was a good idea.

Or how the Chinese government is trying to force assimilation of the Uighurs?

These folks have been through somethiing you will never imagine, god willing, and you want to throw them into a foreign place with no community support because you are afraid that they may not assimilate to your ideals of Americanism.

Wow.[/quote]

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