Quote Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name View Post
What's your point?
America forced people to assimilate, pretty brutally at times, and now it doesn't.

My point is that it has less to do with the incoming group and more to do with the society they come into.

Why did people in the Middle East gradually convert from Greek and Coptic Christianity to Islam? It made their lives much easier, they had better legal rights and paid lower taxes.