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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Doesn't that sort of line up with what I'm saying? During those periods, the ratio of immigrants to Canadian born citizens was really high, and a bunch of ethnic enclaves formed and grew. If you maintain those rates, those things get bigger and bigger and indefinitely delay cultural assimilation of some portion of the population.
Yes, and we get a ton of the "Happy Medium" here in Canada. I love going to ethnic neighbourhoods in different cities, and having the various different cultural celebrations etc. If you take that to the extreme, however, you end up with things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtramck,_Michigan
TL;DR: They now have a publicly broadcast call to prayer, have banned bars near mosques, and were early in the admittedly long line of rainbow flag bans.
I don't have data for it, but I would be willing to bet my life savings that if you surveyed new immigrants from Asia/South Asia about if they followed or played hockey vs. their children, there would be a stark difference.
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No assimilation is remarkably predictable, it takes one generation regardless of how many migrants arrive, the vast numbers of British migrants that arrived in the early 1900's dwarfs anything we are dealing with today and yet none of their kids played soccer or cricket or rugby, they all sloughed off their British roots in a generation and were just Canadian, a migrant enclave is necessary for the parents, for language religion or just cultural comfort, the kids that are born here typically aggressively reject the 'old country' it's not just that they don't need it, it positively pisses them off