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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assimilation is not a bad thing.  Wave after wave of immigrants have been assimilated and now are just Americans.   [/quote]

And for better or worse, American Indians have chosen not to assimilate, or to both assimilate and not assimilate.  Not sure that some of these posters know this or are willing to acknowledge this.[/quote]

They were here first. Europeans chose not to assimilate. [/quote]

I'm genuinely struck by how good a point this is.  No snark.[/quote]

I read a recent article about the new Marvel movie and the reception in Mexico and the issues of colorism.  It mentioned the differences between the Spanish assimilation of the indigenous people when they arrived and the separation, both diplomatic relations and also fighting, between the British and other Europeans when they arrived farther north.

We can talk about assimilation or not assimilating, but not sure that one is better (for the indigenous people or the Americans and Latin America) than the other.[/quote]

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