Signal boost. Dammit, now I can't read Elizabeth Moon anymore.
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 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.