Unkotare
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They certainly are. If anything, they are assimilating more quickly and completely than those who came before.
Today’s immigrants assimilate faster than the Europeans who came before them
I take it you have never been to South Florida. The immigrants have carved out different areas forthemselves.The haitians have little haiti and north miami, the cubans have little Havanna and Hialeah, the south americans have the Doral area.
God knows where the Porta Rican immigrants will carve out for themselves. These groups all retain their language and culture making little or no effort to learn American traditons and culture.
The 1880s called and asked you to return their irrational fears.
Wrong! That is an everyday reality in South Florida. Why the fuck can I speak Spanish, motherfucker? That's why. It's necessary.
PS: I messed up "en" but it still sounds the same.
Cubans and South Americans do assimilate. Haitians and Puerto-Ricans..eh.
Now, as then...
"For the immigrants in America, Swedish remained the standard language, especially at home and at church, but the settlers soon learned enough English to manage their affairs. Some picked up a fractured combination of English and Swedish, which was derisively called "Swinglish." As the cultural world of Swedish America developed, English words and expressions crept into the community and a distinctive form of American Swedish developed that maintained older linguistic traditions of the Sweden of the 1860s and 1870s. The immigrant community was divided over the question of language, with some urging the retention of Swedish, and others seeking a rapid transition to English. For many older immigrants, especially of the first generation, English remained a very foreign language with which they were not comfortable. Swedish remained the language of the churches and social organizations, but the transition to English was rapid especially among the children of the immigrants. By 1920 English was beginning to replace Swedish in the immigrant community. Bilingual approaches were a temporary measure in many immigrant organizations, in order to meet the needs of both younger and older members of the immigrant community."
Sound familiar?
Read more: Swedish Americans - History, Significant immigration waves, Settlement patterns
Read more- Take your ass to Calle Ocho @ 2AM, get out your car and walk down the street. Let us now how your SJW-ness serves you in that situation.
You don't know of any street that would be news to me, champ. At various points in our nation's history you could walk down streets and hear only German or Swedish or French or Italian or Cantonese, etc. The Republic still stands strong.