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Old 11-24-2008, 03:18 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead View Post
Or does the prejudice show towards groups lead to cultural islands or ghettos (in the historical sense)? Do these cultural islands form because people for safer/more secure when not being subjected to bigoty?

I'm just wondering about the other side of that coin.
Frankly? I think both do it.

If you try too hard to assimilate people into one culture, they tend to either not come at all, or, they build their own cultural islands and ghettos.

If you don't try at all and have a multicultural free-for-all, then you have people craving some sort of societal involvement, so they build their own cultural islands and ghettos. Or, they try to change the existing framework to suit them, which offends other groups, once again leading to cultural islands.
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