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> So far, Middle Eastern immigrants have shown little interest in assimilating at all.

Do you realize that there are indigenous christians of all denominations in the ME or there's some kind of dominance hierarchy among denominations and churches of the world that I am not aware of?

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Of course. It's something like 3% of Syrian refuges, for example. No population is uniform.

But if we were talking casually about, say, Hong Kong, and I said the Hong Kong-ese speak Cantonese, would you complain because some percentage do not?

Or if I said Spanish people speak Spanish?

It's not a useful distinction to draw unless you provide it in the context of some larger argument.

In these situations I like to link to https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/

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