Something regarding many immigrants I never understood is why they ran away from their old country to come here and then try to make ‘here’ the same as the countries they left.
Assimilation is an endangered species, as witnessed by ballots in 70+ languages other than the English previous immigrants felt compelled to learn.
“I never understood is why they ran away from their old country to come here and then try to make ‘here’ the same as the countries they left.”
Me, too. The Japanese, I believe, were an exception