With evidence of numerous case studies of various racial groups with a range of backgrounds, resources, and experiences, Portes and Zhou find that “these factors influence decisively the outlook of second-generation youth” (33). By using such a powerful word as decisively, Portes and Zhou suggest that this is the main influential factor of a second generation immigrants assimilation. Waters places less priority on this factor, reasoning that debates in the news are like Portes and Zhou’s argument, which “often focus on problems… and often miss important topics” (236). While the problems focused on are prevalent in today’s society, arguments like this are narrowed into a corner, focusing on one specific attribute of a second generation immigrant’s process of assimilation. By failing to step back and look at the topic from a varying perspective that recent sociological studies provide, debates like Portes and Zhou’s will continue with a dated perspective that ignores other, more recently significant…