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

You would be wrong. Human history up through present day is one story of warring cultures killing each other after another. Thousands of lost cultures. I mean what is Russia doing to Ukraine? But especially 400 years ago that was the worldwide norm.[/quote]

It isn't "one story" up through present day as you describe.

There were 100 people on the Mayflower.  They arrived in a land that was known to be inhabited.  Accepting the narrative that they were fleeing persecution or poverty (much like later immigrants) they should have acknowledged that not "warred".  Or do you think that persecuted immigrants in modern day America should "war."?[/quote]

The people on the Mayflower maintained fairly friendly relationships with the remaining Wampanoag (many had already died from disease.)  You do know that more people came in the years that followed, right?  Relationships were actually pretty good for the first 50 years or so.  Read a book.[/quote]

Huh? 16 years later the colonists massacred the Pequot. 
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There was a war with tribes on both sides.

History is more complicated than you are making it.  
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Driven by the English colonists.

Relationships certainly weren’t “pretty good for the first 50 years or so”. Less than 20 years after that feast, the Pequot tribe was systematically hunted down to be killed or enslaved.
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