The Fallacy of White Privilege

[Dill]

(10-29-2016, 05:36 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: Except it's not bullshit. It's the truth:http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/07/second-generation-americans/?src=rss_main

Overall, second generation immigrants are far more likely than their parents to do many things that ties into assimilation:
1. They're more likely to speak fluent English.
2.They're more likely to have friends and marry outside their ethnic groups.
3.They make more money.
4. They're more likely to hold "American values" close to them.

It's not all created equal though. Some second generation groups see more gains than others, but each group still makes absolute gains when compared to their first generation.

The reason behind the difference is what Bfine was alluding too. When you're born from one country and emigrate to another, you're not going to forget the culture from your homeland and change to the new one overnight. Even if you wanted to, there are language and socioeconomic barriers that make it easier said than done.

I'm reminded of this sexy mexican girl I know who helps her parents run their flea market stand in Flordia. Let's call he Sexy Mexi. Her parents emigrated from Mexcio and they had her soon after. Since she was born in the U.S and spent her entire life here, she understood and spoke English much better than mama and papa. Most days at the flea market are here acting as a translator for her parents. 

Good points.  Speaking from experience, I can say that moving to a foreign country is generally much more difficult for adults than children. And how well/quickly one assimilates also depends on how close the "target" culture is to one's own, the place one came from.  If you are a white American, moving to Great Britain would be much easier than moving to Germany. Either would be much easier than moving to Jordan or China--assuming that you would be living on the economy, subject to host nation laws.  (I think that India would be easier than Jordan or China, given that English is one of its official languages, and many of its institutions are based upon British--this is assuming you have a middle-class job and income.)

Same thing goes in reverse. People coming to the US, as a group, assimilate more or less rapidly according to the distance between their culture of origin and US culture.  A white person from France will blend in much more quickly and easily than a black person from southern Morocco.  Middle-class families with business or university backgrounds from any country tend to do well in the US.  

Finally, I should add that literate societies tend to move better than pre-literate--hence the difficulty of indigenous peoples the world over to adjust to modernizing states and economies, whether in North America, Asia, Africa, or South America.
It may be easier for Chinese businessmen to assimilate to U.S. culture than for some Native Americans.