Word: assimilationism
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Muslim populations in the west are growing and assimilation, although challenging, is non-negotiable. Of course, it is a two-way process and Jyllands-Posten could have refrained from publishing the cartoons to avoid offending Muslims. Nevertheless, the reaction of Muslims undermines their demands; it makes no sense for Dutch...
Moreover, the protesters are attacking a fundamental value of the state itself. Denmark, as a liberal democracy, holds free speech as a basic value: violence and burning flags (which contained, let it be pointed out, a cross of the Christian faith) are not paths to peace, let alone assimilation. Burning...
And not just ideas but also the people who give life to them. America is uniquely socially mobile, ethnically mixed and racially tolerant. America is, in Ben Wattenberg's phrase, the first universal nation, indeed the only universal nation. Every street corner in New York City is a rainbow of...
"The post-1965 generation really is different," says David Reimers, a historian of immigration at N.Y.U. "The process of assimilation has been much faster." The inspiration for the notion of the "model minority," the generation's members have been most recognized for their high academic achievements, a reflection of their...
If you were to draw a diagram of acculturation, with the mores of immigrant parents on one side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent...