In a new country, peopled in two hundred and fifty years by immigrants from the Old World and their descendants, the process of Americanization is not limited by any hard and fast rules as to time and generations, but is altogether a matter of individual and race temperament.
Lodge discusses the fluid nature of Americanization, emphasizing individual and racial temperament over strict generational rules.
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