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Back to EpisodesThe assimilation threshold and why immigration has limits
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Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Immigration is often treated as a moral slogan rather than a system with limits. This episode examines assimilation as a rate-dependent process, asking what happens when societies absorb newcomers faster than shared norms can form. It explores culture, scale, and history to explain why cohesion depends on expectations, enforcement, and clear thinking about tradeoffs...