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(05-16-2016, 05:11 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Do you know what we had in place back then?   A very limited immigration policy so it was easier for them to assimilate.   Now it's practically wide open.   We have a problem not with groups...  We have a problem with amounts.   They have no chance for assimilation.    

There is zero assimilation in Dearborn Michigan for example.  

I disagree (I know, you're shocked). We had little to no immigration controls until after the Civil War. Anti-Catholic efforts were here well before then. And even when we did start having immigration controls in the 1900s (ish), they were mostly southern state laws aimed at "brown" people.

As far as the rest, assimilation doesn't happen overnight. Unless you're the Borg. It takes decades. Longer if there's a considerable effort to keep that from happening. Which, in this case, there is. For Catholics, in some parts of the country, it was still an issue in JFK vs Nixon, well over a century when most of them first started coming here.

So, if you want to up that chance from 0 to a solid 3 or 5% of them assimilating, go hug a Muslim. Instead of posting stories about someone allegedly going to the bathroom in Europe and blaming it on a Muslim, tell an immigrant "hey, nice choice in landing spots." Instead of posting erroneous stories from propganda sites about mass raping sprees, invite a local Muslim family out for coffee.

Or, keeping going with hating the Catholics  Jews Blacks Muslims.