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Post by neil on Jul 4, 2023 9:26:24 GMT
Immigration is often lonely; if you're not Incorporate or GEO personnel it's possible to touch down planetside knowing like a dozen people tops, especially if you've got an identity more specific than "generic English-speaking GEO." A lot of immigrant churches in America are built on the fact that as long as they proactively reach out and have enough people, more will show up regardless of whether they actually believe or not; the dynamic's a bit different on Poseidon because the newcomers don't have a mainstream to assimilate to and haven't formed a coherent identity yet, but the strategy is sound. Churches, or other community- and culture-based centres. Perhaps that's something to do with the Mafiya stereotype: Russian speaking immigrants are both subject to prejudice by others, and the Mafiya provide a ready-made community for them. A parallel I looked at was the California gold rush settlements. There were three main groups there: the Native Americans, the Mexican farmers, and the incoming East Coast Americans. There were also plenty of other smaller groups, such as Chinese and Argentinian, but those didn't seem big enough to form distinct communities. People mixed a lot. Work groups may have been monocultural, but the towns definitely weren't.
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