# Is assimilation racist?

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Podcast: [The Argument](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944)
Published: 2026-07-02T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541989/episodes/19431163-is-assimilation-racist.mp3
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Should immigrants have to assimilate? Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias take on the growing idea that immigrants shouldn't have to assimilate to belong in America. Jerusalem, the daughter of immigrants, disagrees, and makes the case that assimilation is not only good for the country but that immigrants largely self-select for liking America. The conversation turns to patriotism, and why Jerusalem thinks the left has ceded the American flag to the right by defining the country entirely by its...

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