Summary
John McCain and Barack Obama both gave speeches at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington, and in the 4,600 words they spoke between them didn't mention assimilation once.
Never mind that assimilation is the key to the historic success of American immigration. We all know how it classically works: An immigrant group comes to the U.S. with low levels of education and income, living in ethnic enclaves and clinging to its original culture; then, its children improve their socio-economic lot, and the children-of-the-children get even further ahead, until they are all doctors and lawyers living in the suburbs and recalling the culture of the homeland mainly during holidays or ethnic festivals.See the full content of this document
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No One Is Talking About Assimilation
But for the bulk of new Latino immigrants - Mexican-Americans - it's not working this way. In a book-length study called "Generations of Exclusion" based on extensive survey data of Mex...
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