Alba and Nee argue immigrants can keep their culture while still becoming American

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Rather than coerce immigrants to adhere to Anglo-American norms as a means of creating a cohesive national identity, according to Alba and Nee, American society offers more flexibility for ethnic groups to retain their distinctive cultures and languages and still be considered American. If immigrants and their offspring learn English and assimilate in other ways, they can retain their culture of origin. America’s melting pot thus allows for the coexistence of multiple cultures, in contrast to ethnocentric classical assimilationist theories. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 376