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I refuse to link Elizabeth Moon's lovely (*sarcasm) rant about Muslims and assimilation and how WE MUST ALL BE ASSIMILATED (read: erase our own cultures to fit into WASP-y middle class US culture) for immigration to succeed. Yeah, um, no.
However! I'm doing a signal boost because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shweta_narayan is a beautiful, brave person and wrote out her own experiences trying to assimilate. The comments are also kind of amazing, and unifying, because issues of assimilation and immigration happen world-wide, and history is cycling around again and things are getting a little hairy. *gives Arizona the side-eye*
Anyhow, love to all of you dears, this is me shaking a little and venting in the middle of the night when I really ought to be in bed.
However! I'm doing a signal boost because
shweta_narayan is a beautiful, brave person and wrote out her own experiences trying to assimilate. The comments are also kind of amazing, and unifying, because issues of assimilation and immigration happen world-wide, and history is cycling around again and things are getting a little hairy. *gives Arizona the side-eye*Anyhow, love to all of you dears, this is me shaking a little and venting in the middle of the night when I really ought to be in bed.
