Embracing inauthenticity can be a productive creative response to assimilation pressure

Evidence

That is why he could make jokes about his conversion. I believe that on a deeper level it is also what is behind his trademark irony, which both ridicules and cherishes. This elusiveness is what makes his poetry. What Heine understood is that when it comes to processes of integration and assimilation, it does not help to be too strict on authenticity, and I think it is here that Hirsi Ali’s criticism of Islam misses the target. Yet their stories also show that for an immigrant pressed to integrate into a foreign society, it is easier to become a poet than an activist. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1674 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expellee memory culture aimed to transmit identity against assimilation — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 807; Market researchers must internalize subcultural coolness to surveil it effectively; Embracing inauthenticity can be a creative path to integration — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1674 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Embracing inauthenticity can be a creative path to integration #expands (0.95) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1674
• Bicultural identity promotes well-being better than full assimilation #complicates (0.78)