Different state philosophies on integrating immigrants into their new countries
The World featured this interesting story about how France favors a highly debated policy of assimilation into French society for immigrants in contrast with the U.S. and U.K., which tend to favor a multicultural approach to integration nowadays. Thoughts?

Hey Greg, super interesting article — I knew that France did stuff like banning hijabs, but I didn’t know that they make prospective long-term residents take culture/politics classes! This is cynical, but honestly, I think the big difference between France and the US is not that the US embraces multiculturalism but that the US is too chaotic and decentralized to run these kinds of classes. How can you teach a class on proper American values when no one can agree what exactly they are? The closest thing I can think of is citizenship classes (hilarious because a lot of native-born US citizens don’t know most of the stuff you have to learn for the test), but if you’re not trying to become a citizen, you’re on your own. I feel like a lot of Americans think learning about your new home country is a personal responsibility or just a sink or swim type of deal. Americans aren’t even good at setting up social systems for other Americans (Covered California, you suck) , so why on earth would we think about immigrants…? (Oh, but we were super assimilationist toward immigrants back in the day as I’m sure you know!) Sigh, that’s the impression I get.
I can tell from all the comments on your pieces that I’m not the only one having fun here. keep doing what you’re doing