Time? It also took legal and social equality, mass education that was explicitly enthusiastic about the civil values of the US and economic opportunity for any of it to work. Americanisation will indeed take place, but the civil status of the children of the migrants will depend on their ability to claim the privileges of affirmative a…
Time? It also took legal and social equality, mass education that was explicitly enthusiastic about the civil values of the US and economic opportunity for any of it to work. Americanisation will indeed take place, but the civil status of the children of the migrants will depend on their ability to claim the privileges of affirmative action, preferential contracting and equity policy. And a fair proportion of the population of the interior will, over time, resemble the Tamils of Malaysia or the whites of South Africa.
Americanisation is certainly inevitable, but I suspect that its future results will be more complicated and uneven than they were in the past.
Time? It also took legal and social equality, mass education that was explicitly enthusiastic about the civil values of the US and economic opportunity for any of it to work. Americanisation will indeed take place, but the civil status of the children of the migrants will depend on their ability to claim the privileges of affirmative action, preferential contracting and equity policy. And a fair proportion of the population of the interior will, over time, resemble the Tamils of Malaysia or the whites of South Africa.
Americanisation is certainly inevitable, but I suspect that its future results will be more complicated and uneven than they were in the past.