These two articles underline, in
very different ways, an important point usually overlooked in discussions of
immigration: that while immigrants assimilate to the society they settle in,
that society also assimilates to them.—TPOI editor
Stanford sociologist flips
assimilation formula in new book
In his new book, sociologist
Tomás Jiménez turns the conventional analysis of assimilation on its head and
dissects the phenomenon from the perspective of Silicon Valley’s established
population.
By Milenko Martinovich, Stanford
News
July 31, 2017
The conventional way of studying
assimilation is to document the changes immigrants and their children
experience when adapting to a new culture.
Stanford sociologist Tomás Jiménez
flips the equation in his new book, The Other Side of Assimilation: How
Immigrants Are Changing American Life. Focusing on the unique composition and
atmosphere of three distinct areas of Silicon Valley, Jiménez analyzes
assimilation from the perspectives of the region’s established inhabitants by
exploring how their lives have changed due to the presence of immigrants and
interactions with them.[…]
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The Meaning of ‘Despacito’ in the
Age of Trump
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New
York Times
August 4, 2017
On Friday, “Despacito,” the hit
song by the Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, became the most
watched video on YouTube ever, with nearly three billion views. And it got
there faster than any music video in history. Just over two weeks ago Universal
Music announced it was also the most streamed song in history, if you combine
the number of times people played the original song or video with a remixed
version featuring vocals from the Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
The ascendance of “Despacito” is
remarkable for a number reasons: Except for Mr. Bieber’s intro, the song is
almost entirely in Spanish. (Despacito means “slowly,” and depending on how you
interpret the lyrics, the song is about what you’d do slowly to someone you
really like.) The rhythmic backbone of the song is reggaeton, a style with
roots in Jamaica that developed in Puerto Rico and has long been popular in
Latin America but has only occasionally broken through to the English-speaking
world. The video is set in a storied Puerto Rican slum called La Perla and
features a joyously multiracial cast.[…]
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