[Cacique]

I frankly don't know, I am classified as a hispanic by the census bureau simply because of where I was born. Latino is an old term that has been around forever and is a derivative of "Latin" which at one time also meant Italians as derivative of the langauge they spoke.

It is much easier for ignorant people in bureaucracies to classify people. Also, keep in mind that today modern migrants or "colonists" are a cheap plane ride away from their native countries and don't feel compelled to settle in culturaly or otherwise into their new country. The advent os foreign language television and papers and the entire market economy that comes with it makes it unnecessary for someone to assimilate. Coming to America is no longer the one way trip as it was a hundred years ago.

[Malesherbes]

You make a very perceptive comment which should be obvious to all but which most people don't consider - coming to America is no longer a one way trip, and it is no longer necessary to assimilate. "Globalization" and "multiculturalism" are now taken by the governing elites as givens, without much thought to the longer tern implications. At the moment we are just muddling along and hoping that we'll muddle through.

[JustPiper]

Can you post this entire artilce, it's for members only
~sniff

[Butcher Kilroy]

For some it is. Bosnians (approximately 75,000) have immigrated from that war torn country and are assimilating quite nicely in St. Louis over the past 10 years. They are in fact the model immigrant in that they work hard, are very family oriented, do not make demands for free this or that, and have learned the language practically overnight. In fact they are assimilating so well that the older Bosnians have expressed the regret that their children are becoming too Americanized and are losing all ties to their Bosnian culture.