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What if American society evolved in a way that all immigrant groups had a tradition of passing their language down to their children, all the way to the present time period?


For one, I think that ethnic groups would remain very concentrated in certain areas. Many more areas would be very dominated by one ethnic group (a la rural Midwestern counties that are over 60% German), since people would be more apt to remain among their ethnic kin (consequently, ethnic strife and bigotry might be more common because there would be less mixing). On a similar note, I think that there would be much less intermarriage between ethnic groups. Instead of the main criteria for marrying transitioning from ethnic group to class, it would stay as the former since parents would pressure children to marry someone from the same group to ensure that their grandchildren know their ancestral language, something that would be less feasible with a spouse from another ethnicity.
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