Laila Lalami’s article about assimilation was quite powerful. She incorporated multiple examples of clear and deliberate discrimination based off of a culture’s failure to assimilate and highlighted how detrimental this action can be. People such as Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, and Milo Yiannopoulos, in her essay were all people who looked at assimilation as a change in everything about the person. In order for someone to be fully accepted in their minds they must have left behind native languages, religions, clothing, and food, “it runs deeper and involves relinquishing all ties, even linguistic ones, to the old country,” (Lalami). For me assimilation in my mind was always embracing a culture but it most certainly does not involve losing one’s self amidst the process. The reasonable assimilation she explained was that, “assimilation is based on pragmatic considerations, like achieving some fluency in the dominant language, some educational or economic success, some familiarity with the country’s history and culture,” (Lalami). Towards the end of the paper she mentions how for years upon years we as a country had denied entry into many ethnic, and religious groups including the Irish. The follow up point to that was to show how now-a-days we have a national celebration on St. Patrick’s Day without a second thought to our discrimination. Yet our own president is currently still denying entry to Muslims. How is that any different? This is the key idea she uses to drive home the message that this is not a problem of the past but something we still deal with on a daily basis.