http://greyswan.net/2007/05/culture-and-assimilation/ A mostly unpredictable weblog Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:22:12 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://greyswan.net/2007/05/culture-and-assimilation/comment-page-1/#comment-10 barry Thu, 31 May 2007 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/culture-and-assimilation/#comment-10 <p>I believe that what you are stating is a form of social darwinism, survival of the cultural species in the face of adverse and different social conditions, Assimilation seemed to occur only in this country in the early days of its existence. Perhaps this is due to the large amount of land and space available, or due to the newness of America. Immigrants came here, perhaps all with the same ideals, and wanted to become part of this great social experiment. BB</p> I believe that what you are stating is a form of social darwinism, survival of the cultural species in the face of adverse and different social conditions, Assimilation seemed to occur only in this country in the early days of its existence. Perhaps this is due to the large amount of land and space available, or due to the newness of America. Immigrants came here, perhaps all with the same ideals, and wanted to become part of this great social experiment. BB

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