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HOW *WELL* INTEGRATED - pardon the typo in the title
In terms of their integration into American society and culture? Feel free to rank them, from most integrated to least, or just describe whether you think these ethnicities are fully integrated into American culture or not, or to what degree they are.
European:
Irish-Americans
Polish-Americans
Scandinavian-Americans (Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Finns, and Danes)
British-Americans
Italian-Americans
French-Americans
Dutch-Americans
Spanish-Americans (could consider sole Spaniard ethnicity or consider the Spanish element of Hispanic and Latino American culture)
Russian, Ukrainian, and other Slavic-American peoples
Greek-Americans
Croatian-Americans
Romanian and Romani-Americans
German-Americans and adjacent countries (Swiss-Americans, Czech-Americans, Austrian-Americans)
Hungarian, Slovak, and Slovenian-Americans
Portuguese-Americans
other Southeast Europeans (Albanian, Serbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Moldovan, Bulgarian, Bosnian-Americans)
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Eurasian peoples (Georgian, Azeri, and Armenian-Americans)
African-Americans (native ethnic group)
African and West Indian-Americans (immigrant communities)
Asian:
Chinese-Americans
Korean-Americans
Vietnamese-Americans
Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan-Americans
Thai, Laotian and Cambodian-Americans
Japanese-Americans
Latin American:
Mexican-Americans
Mesoamerican peoples (Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Belizean, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, and Costa Rican-Americans)
South American immigrants (Brazilian, Argentine, Ecuadorian, Chilean, Uruguayan, Peruvian-Americans)
Oceanic/Austronesian:
Pacific Islander-Americans
Ethno-Religious:
Jewish-Americans
Muslim-Americans
Sikh-Americans
Other:
Native American populations
Canadian and French Canadian-Americans
Australian-Americans
Yes, but I'm interested to know which cultures in general have integrated the best.
It's not a competition. Not to mention, some people view multiculturalism as being "best."
What do you consider integration? Is it when newcomers melt into the existing culture or is it when newcomers melt into Anglo-American culture? For example, for centuries the existing culture in New Orleans was not Anglo-American. Same with Southern California, New Mexico, Texas, and a host of other places. And what about Native American areas? When white people moved to those places in large numbers, generally in only the last 200 years (those places were culturally Spanish or French or Native American for much, much longer), the white people did not integrate. They brought their own culture, customs, and laws and forced it upon everyone there. Those groups did not integrate well. On the other hand, if you define "integrate" as conforming to white, Anglo-American culture, then they integrated very well.
If Hispanics move to the Southwest and they don't "integrate" into American culture then they're still integrating into the historical culture of that region, which is their own. So they did integrate.
Japanese-Americans are the most assimilated in the Asian category. This is mostly because the vast majority are the descendants of those who came over in the late 1800s and early 1900s to work in agriculture, and immigration from Japan has been minimal since middle of the 20th century. Japan's insane economic rise in the 60s, 70s and 80s meant that they never had any reason for their people to leave and therefore no recent wave of emigration the way that Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, etc. have. Basically nobody's needed to leave Japan out of economic necessity since the 1950s at latest. This is similar to Western Europeans.
They have the lowest rates of speaking a foreign language in-home, and I believe one of the highest rates of interracial marriage.
All white Americans besides Hassidic Jews are vey integrated, it's not 1930 anymore.
This isn't true. There are plenty of recent white immigrant groups that still keep their culture/language/etc. E.g. Portuguese-Americans in some areas, white Latino immigrants, certain Russophone immigrant groups, certain Jewish groups, etc.
There isn't any "best" and we can't generalize about one group or another in this regard. There will always be a cluster that will be non-integrated based on how recently they arrived, how big their ethnic community is, and how strong their interest or commitment to integrate is. Also, the bar is higher or lower depending on where you live. Integration might look different in NYC, Miami, Seattle, LA, Albuquerque, or Salt Lake City. I moved from the rural Midwest to the high desert of New Mexico where everything is very different so I am integrating in my own way and speed to my new "country". Even here I play bocce with a group of Italian-Americans who often speak Italian and preserve their culture in an organized way (but I'm not Italian).
This isn't true. There are plenty of recent white immigrant groups that still keep their culture/language/etc. E.g. Portuguese-Americans in some areas, white Latino immigrants, certain Russophone immigrant groups, certain Jewish groups, etc.
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Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade
Eastern Europeans seem a bit less so. Not that there’s a ton of them I just think of them as ‘other’
I don't find the US born ones to be any different from mainstream whites.
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