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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Ok.

Should the Latinos coming to MoCo assimilate? English only?

Or should mcps cancel Halloween parties because the holiday rubs the newcomers the wrong way due to their religious beliefs?

That’s just one example. But I’m curious what you think. Should everyone assimilate, or should we be a melting pot and evolve? [/quote]

I wasn't really taking a stance on assimilation itself.  But I was thinking that as a general rule when people enter an established culture they do not destroy it.  They may completely assimilate.  They may create communities of people from their prior culture and interact with the greater population on a limited basis or they may even work to get aspects of their culture into the main stream.

The European settlers took a very different approach.[/quote]

No, actually for a long time the European settlers treated the Indians as a foreign nation, with diplomacy, negotiating (and breaking) treaties and fighting battles, just like back in Europe.   For many decades, the relationship was very similar to warring parts of Europe, with some truces and occasional friendship and peace.  The US government didn't attain military ascendancy for a long time.  [/quote]

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