Then how come you had to interview people in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu?
The researchers concluded that "Muslim Americans appear to be highly assimilated into American society."
Then how come you had to interview people in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu?
Good point.
Buwahahaha... That’s funny right there.
Good point!
Pews conclusion from its telephone interview may have have been outcome-driven. Either that or the people interviewed told Pew what they perceived that Pew wanted to hear.
I’ll side with Trump’s judgement on this issue.
Trump position:
“Assimilation has been very hard... They come — they don’t — for some reason, there’s no real assimilation”
Politifact response:
“[only]56 percent of Muslim Americans said that most Muslims...want to adopt American customs and ways of life....20 percent said most Muslims coming to the U.S. want to be distinct from the larger American society..about half of Muslims said they thought of themselves first as a Muslim, rather than as American...84 percent of 12-to-18-year-old Muslim Americans... were comfortable with their “hyphenated identities”... “They don’t feel the need to pick one over the other.”...”In the 1970s and 1980s, Muslim leaders explicitly urged their people to avoid assimilating into the American mainstream and to withdraw into Islamic community centers, schools, and colleges,” ...Sarah Lyons-Padilla... and Michele Gelfand...describe “assimilation” as part of an older “melting pot” model...”We should not confuse integration with assimilation,” Lyons-Padilla and Gelfand have written. “Integration means encouraging immigrants to call themselves American, German or French and to take pride in their own cultural and religious heritage.”...Muslim-Americans’ support for “assimilation” — essentially, the melting-pot model — is low, statistically, at 1.76 on a 6-point scale...”This tells you that Muslim Americans don’t want to assimilate into American culture at the expense of giving up their own cultural identity
CONCLUSION: Politifact did an excellent job proving Trump’s position for him.
Muslims are not interested in assimilating, and in response, liberal scholars are insanely demanding we throw out the ‘melting pot’ model in exchange for a Balkanization, not loyalty to America, model.
I think yours is the Post of the Day.
‘...Then how come you had to interview people in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu?’
...and, if they’ve assimilated into the American culture, then why are liberals so concerned about offending them.
People who choose to come to America and become citizens should be able to read, write, vote, etc in English. We need to stop the hyphenated nationalities and print official documents only in English.
Read the Pew results. I goggled Pew polls for Muslin attitudes, and, it is true, the vast majority seem to be assimilating well, and generally share American values. (About 25% are Republicans).
If Trump is wrong about the vast majority, he may be onto something for a small minority of immigrant Muslims. On any given issue, 10% (give or take) support violence against civilians, to avenge insults to the prophet, or to spread their faith by force. All you need is a small minority to cause disaster and disrupt our society. I can think of no other group that shares these attitudes.
Read the results....interesting.
Placemark
Haven’t the recent Muslim terrorists been second generation? Boston bombers, San Bernadino, Orlando etc. Sure they seem pretty assimilated, as terrorists, not so much as good citizens.
So what exactly is Trump wrong about?
Then how come you had to interview people in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu?
“Then how come you had to interview people in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu? “
Bingo!
Lol