Comment by Glenn Contrarian on Boston Marathon Bombings Should Not Figure...
Baronius - Often, we're seeing isolationism among new immigrants, the kind of isolationism that is the opposite of assimilation. Do you have a reference for this? I ask because I know a lot of...
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I mean isolation in the sense of Balkanization, forming isolated communities in their new country. Every wave of immigration does this to some extent, but we don't seem to be doing anything to...
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Baronius - The 'isolated communities' are quite natural - when you're a stranger in a strange land, it's quite normal to look for those who understand who you are and where you came from. You can see...
View ArticleComment by Les Slater on Boston Marathon Bombings Should Not Figure Into...
But Glenn, sometimes it's not safe to go into some neighborhoods. And, of course it's note safe for those living there either. The ghettoization of communities is a consequence of economic inequalities...
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An op-ed in yesterday's NYT discusses this issue.
View ArticleComment by Dan(Miller) on Boston Marathon Bombings Should Not Figure Into...
Isolation is not unusual. My wife and I have lived in the Republic of Panama for about a decade. The Gringos (very infrequently used here as a term of disparagement) here do tend to isolate themselves...
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