Which Immigrants Are The Quickest To Assimilate?

[newdixiegirl]

Originally Posted by ReineDeCoeur

It depends on how one defines assimilation.



Caribbean immigrants don't care what Asian immigrant communities think of them. They do not see Asian home countries or cultures as anything to write home about so they are at most indifferent to or amused by their racism.

Many immigrants of various backgrounds do view WASP parents as lazy and indifferent. And although those immigrants may harbor prejudice against each other, that's likely something most would agree upon. Cultural differences really.

(BTW, not all Caribbean people are of African descent. So if you mean to specify Afro-Caribbean people, then it's best to do that).

Yes, my uncle married a woman of Indian descent who grew up in the Caribbean, and I've travelled there, so I know that not all Caribbean people are of African descent. But, fair enough; I should have been more specific.

But you need to clarify what you mean when you refer to WASPs. Do you mean White Anglo Saxon Protestant, specifically? How do you know they're Anglo Saxon and/or Protestant?

[PoppySead]

Originally Posted by charlygal

Could someone please give the definition of "assimilate?"

to take in and incorporate as one's own

O.P. That is hard to tell since America is one of the few countries where assimilating isn't required to feel part of the country. Just attach your native origin to Americans and that's it. Most Americans adapt to other cultures, enjoy their food, their history as if it's their own. America is a unique country that way.

Now, in my mothers native country there is pressure to assimilate and if you aren't Korean you'll never be a Korean. Even if you have generation after generation of children there. Even though I was born in America my grandmother in Korea would still ask me when I would be coming back to my country. lol I'm never an American to her. Very different from the U.S. Most other countries have much more of a "native" feel than America.

But, still, my shoes never touch the floor of a house. and I'm a second generation, somethings just stick.

[ReineDeCoeur]

Originally Posted by newdixiegirl

Yes, my uncle married a woman of Indian descent who grew up in the Caribbean, and I've travelled there, so I know that not all Caribbean people are of African descent. But, fair enough; I should have been more specific.

But you need to clarify what you mean when you refer to WASPs. Do you mean White Anglo Saxon Protestant, specifically? How do you know they're Anglo Saxon and/or Protestant?

You used WASP in your post, so I used the same in keeping with the conversation. So why did you find it necessary to use it?

[TKO]

I find it ironic that assimilating would ever be an issue in a country created by people who refused to assimilate in the country they left. We are a country of individuals (rugged individualism and all that), even when those individuals are different from you. Frankly those differences go a long way towards our successes.

Assimilate is a word that belongs in a George Orwell novel.

[newdixiegirl]

Originally Posted by ReineDeCoeur

You used WASP in your post, so I used the same in keeping with the conversation. So why did you find it necessary to use it?

I used it in my post because another poster (s) had used it in theirs.

[torontocheeka]

Originally Posted by green papaya

anybody that immigrates as a small child and grows up here and finishes public school will be very likely to be fully adapted.

people that didnt grow up here will never fully assimilate.

if you were to immigrate to a country in the Middle East right now, I doubt you would ever fully assimilate either, you would learn the local laws, customs, etc, but you would always feel like an outsider and not be like them, but your children would have a better chance.

That's not true imo my bestie is from Bahrain and moved to Canada 12 years ago and you wouldn't even know she wasn't born here; few realize it until she tells them.

She did have the advantage of going to school in English, being taught by Brits.