Nah. Assimilation is a myth. 'Melting Pot' is just a term that a european tourist used to describe New York City back in the 1920s, and if that doesn't fill you with a sense of revulsion, I don't know what to say to you.
Immigrant cultures adapt. They adapt to the bare absolute minimum they can get away with. There are variations to this - hell, my Great-Grandparents were one of 'em - but as a general rule, it fits.
Immigration worked in America for several reasons - one, it was a back and forth flow, not one way. Two, there was enough space and time for groups of immigrants to go into the middle of fucking nowhere, settle down, and be content - and be ignored(and ignore everyone else). If they didn't, there were sectioned-off ethnic enclaves they could go to in the big cities where they were around others like themselves, everyone knew about them, and everyone knew the treat them like a small foreign country in America.
We no longer have that. We no longer have the space and time to ignore them, and the absolute bare minimum people can get away with is basically their culture, transported over here, with no one metaphorically forcing them to 'Speak fucking American!' because that could be racist. We have multi-national corporations bending over backward to accommodate them, because they want their fucking money.
Argue against any of this, or point out that maybe, just maybe we want to slow immigration down, and you get a horde of drooling retards blurting about... stuff, and completely ignorant of the history of immigration and how it's shifted over time.
Blah. Rant over. I keep going on this and I'm going to start guzzling blackpills...
Nah. Assimilation is a myth. 'Melting Pot' is just a term that a european tourist used to describe New York City back in the 1920s, and if that doesn't fill you with a sense of revulsion, I don't know what to say to you.
Immigrant cultures adapt. They adapt to the bare absolute minimum they can get away with. There are variations to this - hell, my Great-Grandparents were one of 'em - but as a general rule, it fits.
Immigration worked in America for several reasons - one, it was a back and forth flow, not one way. Two, there was enough space and time for groups of immigrants to go into the middle of fucking nowhere, settle down, and be content - and be ignored(and ignore everyone else). If they didn't, there were sectioned-off ethnic enclaves they could go to in the big cities where they were around others like themselves, everyone knew about them, and everyone knew the treat them like a small foreign country in America.
We no longer have that. We no longer have the space and time to ignore them, and the absolute bare minimum people can get away with is basically their culture, transported over here, with no one metaphorically forcing them to 'Speak fucking American!' because that could be racist. We have multi-national corporations bending over backward to accommodate them, because they want their fucking money.
Argue against any of this, or point out that maybe, just maybe we want to slow immigration down, and you get a horde of drooling retards blurting about... stuff, and completely ignorant of the history of immigration and how it's shifted over time.
Blah. Rant over. I keep going on this and I'm going to start guzzling blackpills...
It worked when the immigrants were white.