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15/Newcomers are naturally scared by the specter of this fantasy of submissive assimilation. They're scared they'll be forced not just to give up their traditions and identity, but to try in vain to conform to an impossible standard.

16/So liberals use multiculturalist and anti-assimilation rhetoric to tell the newcomers: Don't worry. We accept you for who you are. You don't have to change to be part of our gang.

17/This tactic is, generally, successful. Free of the fear of being held to an impossible standard of conformity, members of newcomer groups feel more at ease around natives. They intermarry, form interracial friendships, etc.

18/The newcomer groups don't submerge their identities or engage in self-repressive conformity. But for this reason, over time their culture blends with that of the liberal natives who welcome them into the fold.

19/The liberal natives' culture and the newcomers' cultures become more like each other. They merge over 2 or 3 generations into a new thing. An amalgam.

20/And THAT, my friends, is ACTUAL assimilation. Not the nativists' fantasy of submissive conformity. Rather, a process of INTEGRATION. Of cultural (and eventually, physical) blending into a new and unified whole.

21/Integration doesn't happen because anyone consciously pushes for it (except maybe the military). It happens naturally. Without barriers to actively keep them apart, neighbors tend to become one people.

22/Meanwhile, the nativists who shout over and over that they want "assimilation" don't actually want the real thing. They want a fantasy version (or, better yet, to simply kick newcomers out).