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The Importance of Assimilation
The book is fascinating because they look at the immigration cohort of 1880, which was primarily Northern Europeans. The Norwegians and Finns were considered the lowbrow; it took them longer to assimilate. And then in 1910, 1910 was Southern Europe and Eastern Europe,. It was Italians and then Poles and Russians and a lot of, I think Jews were in both cohorts. Then they looked and they jumped forward and they look at a more recent immigration cohort that is dominated by Latin Americans and Asians. What they show is, yeah, assimilation is hard, it takes time, it doesn't get fully done, it takes three generations to get fully done.
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