In Kate Vieira’s article, “American By Paper,” she describes a concept that she calls “fragmented assimilation.” Unlike the usual use of the word assimilation, fragmented assimilation accounts for the dynamic, changing environment and multicultural atmosphere that immigrants enter and assimilate into. It also centers assimilation on the ways that immigrants use biliteracy to “assimilate partially to multiple host communities that are themselves being transformed by the writing of new immigrants” (Vieira 52). Do you think that this concept of fragmented assimilation is useful for destabilizing the racist connotation of assimilation? What is working and what could be better about the concept of fragmented assimilation?