Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
If the Prime Minister of Norway came to Minnesota, would she get an exuberant reception from crowds of Minnesota Norwegians?\u00a0 I suspect not, because for Americans, being of Norwegian extraction is not a core identity, it\u2019s a footnote.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happens when people assimilate: they put their new nation first and recall The Old Country on St. Urho\u2019s Day.\u00a0 That\u2019s what needs to happen for these folks<\/a>, else they\u2019re not Americans, they\u2019re tourists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t disagree with Joe in principle – but not every immigrant ethnic group has molded itself to its surroundings (and, let’s be honest, vice versa) like Scandinavians of the Midwest.<\/p>\n
I’ll submit for your approval the Italians, whose fitting into American society had a few hiccups.<\/p>\n
And I’m not just talking\u00a0Godfather Part 3<\/em>, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If the Prime Minister of Norway came to Minnesota, would she get an exuberant reception from crowds of Minnesota Norwegians?\u00a0 I suspect not, because for Americans, being of Norwegian extraction is not a core identity, it\u2019s a footnote.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happens when people assimilate: they put their new nation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67744,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738\/revisions\/67744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}