>>211990378>I think assimilation is almost always forced.Well in a way it is, but sometimes to assimilate into a mainstream culture is simply more effective and better at mantaining you than just pearclutching minimal cultural differences.
Culture is good at existing because its good at preserving itself.
Self defeating cultures dissapear, replicating cultures replicate.
Some times cultures outcompete each other, for that, they normally appeal to lower common denominators that facilitate their spread
(Hence why marx thought the ultimate type of collective consciousness would be class)
At any rate, just look arround, people is competing at everything
Even egalitarians are in their own way mutt-racialists, because to assett their project they need to forbid and unsermine the project of those that actively seek to preserve themselves, for that they need to difficult, undermine and outlaw mechanism the other groups could use for reproduction, advocacy and eventually, independence.
If you let a group form an enclave they will seek ways to preserve themselves, increase their population, increase that population political agency and finally, get their own state or control the one they live in.
As for latinos, i suposse part of it is related to latinos being a gradient.
Many latinos self-perceive as white because they are mixed, many others are mostly european in descent, its different, i reckon