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I do agree with much of the rest of your post, especially the European assimilation (or, more precisely, the lack thereof). It's been several years, but I do remember a story that France (specifically Paris) was taking in Muslims, and then relegating them to a sort of ghetto without much opportunity. Not sure if that was more universal in Europe as a whole.
That's the nature of assimilation of every ethnic group that ever migrated. That's why Manhattan has a Little Italy, and a Chinatown, and Boston is an Irish town. They were all isolated at first, and took a couple of generations to blend in. The first generation to be born in a new country is one that speaks like a native, but still feels strong ties to their parents' homeland. The next generation views their grandparents' country of birth as a distant historic anecdote, and is often descended from mixed ethnicities.
