News (Noticias) Tagged ‘assimilation’

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August 18, 2008

Linda Chavez: Intermarriage facts shatter the census hysteria - The problem with all such predictions is that they don’t take into sufficient account intermarriage and assimilation.

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Tags: assimilation, demographics, Linda Chavez

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August 8, 2008

Immigrant Integration, or Assimilation? The topic of “immigrant integration” has become a buzz phrase here in the nation’s capital, but some continue to prefer to use the word “assimilation” instead.

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Tags: assimilation

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June 26, 2008

Hispanics live in a divided world — “coconuts” — brown on the outside and white on the inside.

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Tags: assimilation

It is one of a Hispanic community that is divided between well-established Latino families living here since the turn of the last century and thousands of newcomers.

To assimilate into mainstream America, Bustamante’s parents and others like them never taught their children Spanish. She didn’t insist that her sons learn it either.
But that has created problems. Newcomers tell them they’re not “true Mexicans” because they don’t speak Spanish. “*