hbd chick says: 09/22/2011 at 6:58 PM one other thing about assimilation is that numbers count. if we only had a few tens of thousands of mexicans in the states, they just wouldn???t be very noticeable, and they???d probably assimilate pretty quickly, especially if they weren???t living all in the one place. but once you start to have millions of individuals from another ethnic group in your count