Please provide a short summary of the chapter, Assimilation.

In the chapter, Assimilation, Lalami interrogates the idea that immigrants should ‘assimilate’ to the culture of the country to which they immigrate. Lalami highlights the ways in which this idea is extremely problematic, as it assumes that a narrow set of customs define American culture. Moreover, people who advocate for ‘assimilation’ demand that immigrants relinquish all cultural connections to their birth country. Lalami advocates for integration and multiculturalism rather than assimilation.