a common notion shared by many, to be sure
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To the point of (crumbling) hegemony, yes.
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We can partly blame the Anglosphere's past successes in assimilation. *Very* broadly speaking, the American melting pot and Catholic Emancipation in Britain both worked. The liberal establishment tried to keep this going after 1970, with no natural growth and exotic people.
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No one remembers that if you didn’t assimilate, you died. The pressures for assimilation were much stronger pre-20th century.
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I thought changing a people beyond recognition was meant to destroy the cultural and institutional fabric of their society. It was certainly the approach to indigenous peoples here in the Americas
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