Sunday, September 07, 2008 | 12:25 a.m.

Immigrants Assimilating Faster

by Linda Chavez

A new study out this week by the Manhattan Institute should dispel a few myths on immigrant assimilation. The study looked at a range of factors — economic, cultural, and civic — to assess whether today's immigrants are becoming part of the American mainstream. But it also compared this generation of immigrants to the Great Wave who came to America's shores in the early part of the 20th century. The good news is that today's immigrants appear to be assimilating at faster rates tha ...

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Posted by: daniel johnson
Comment: #1
Tue May 20, 2008 2:32 PM

I believe with the mexican immigration we have a unique situation as to assimilation. In the past no one ethnic or national group had sufficient population numbers to tilt the native established culture. Now with the established population and increasing numbers coming in from Mexico with a common language the Hispanic Mexican immigrants can trump the native culture and langauge by the sheer number of people with a common background . They may follow the European model where in many European nations you have clusters of non native speakers often due to war or earlier migrations going back hundreds of years such as Germans in Poland, Hungary and czeck Republic. It's a new ballgame.

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