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CMV: when you move to a new country you should want to assimilate

People often claim it’s racist to suggest that people who move to a country should integrate  with the culture they’ve moved to. I think that it’s perfectly reasonable to expect that they do. This isn’t to suggest that they cannot hold on to their previous identities, or speak their mother tongue language to people who also speak it, or practice their religious values, but they should want to adopt some of the culture exists in their new country. 

They chose to move to a new country, and it shouldn’t be surprising that people find some things like the fact that they won’t learn the language, or they talk down on the culture, a bit annoying. This in no way means that they should be harassed or mistreated for it though. 

I just don’t understand why it’s something people view as racis/xenophobic. 

Edit: when I say integrate, I don’t mean giving up things like their native food or likes and dislikes, but rather learning to speak the language of their area, or trying to respect the cultural values of their surrounding area. The goal should be that you want to combine your cultures.
gpt
Whenever you combine two things, the goal is to take the best parts of the original entities, and discard the worst parts. So if a car company makes reliable, boring cars and another makes sexy, shoddy cars, the goal should be to make a reliable sexy car. Both entities have to change for the optimal outcome. 

Whenever people talk about assimilation, they think they should stay the same and the new group should adapt to match their culture. Really, both sides need to change for the better. That's the best way to get the "little bit of familiar, little bit of different" blend that makes the best stuff (e.g., music, food, clothes, etc.).

In this way, if your side does something better, you absolutely should not give that up. You should make sure that the combined new group has that quality. You should only adopt the good things from the other group. The neutral things can stay the same because they don't matter. In this way, both sides only take on things that are objective improvements, and shed the outdated ways of doing things. The goal isn't to assimilate, it's to create something new that is even better than either side had before.