(December 8, 2015 at 5:34 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(December 8, 2015 at 5:23 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: They don't seem to get into that much here in the States. Maybe our 'don't put them in ghettoes' policy has something to do with it, or our rabid conservatives have them keeping their heads down.
I live in an area that's considered by locals to be an Islamic ghetto, but areas like this aren't created by any policy that I know of, its just cheap housing and people usually like to be around people of a similar culture to their own. Lots of other cultures have moved in recently like polish and Romanians.
I'm not sure about immigrants, but when we do refugee resettlements, private charities sponsor the family or individual, and they are settled near the charity that sponsored them, because the sponsorship usually involves a year-long commitment to assist and help integrate.
Maybe getting scattered around a large country like that prevents ghettoization. For example, in the Somali Bantu refugee resettlement about 15 years ago, they were settled in at least a dozen different states, from Texas to Maine. They are forming communities now, but they had to master cell phones, social media, driving, and finding work and housing to make it happen. There are only two of the original ten families left in Columbia SC where I worked with them, plus a couple of young men who stuck here with their jobs instead of moving with their families. I hear there are strong Bantu communities in Buffalo and Sioux Falls.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
