Summary
Author James Baldwin wrote the following about immigration: "The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."
His quote is an elegant call for assimilation but a controversial one deemed arrogant by some. Consider a contrasting statement from sociologist Charles Horton Cooley: "There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him."See the full content of this document
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Hearing Opposite Voices On Assimilation
Let these men's words represent divergent views on the assimilation of immigrants, a topic we've taken up this week at www.beyondbordersblog.com.
At one pole there are those who believe ...See the full content of this document
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