Assignment: Cultural Integration
For this assignment, you are to reflect on this module's readings and their articulation of the process of bringing two cultures together.
Choose one of the historical documents from this module's reading and discuss the kinds of claims made about the nature of immigration or cultural intermingling in the document. As you prepare your assignment, reflect on the following sorts of questions (not all questions will apply to all of the historical documents):
1. According to the document, what is the nature of an immigrant?
2. What obligations-if any-does a host nation have to those willing to or interested in immigrating?
3. What obligations do immigrants have to their new host nation?
4. How does a culture or a nation claim legitimate ownership over property, land, or a nation?
5. How is this legitimacy challenged?
6. Are the goals of "civilizing" or spreading knowledge, religion, or some other value ever justified in terms of "conquering" or assimilating a culture?