The main discussion of the Waters and Jimenez article, “Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges” is the assimilation of immigrants. One thing that Waters and Jimenez discuss is the changes in demographics of immigrants in the new places that they enter from. Another thing  that was discussed was the influence that immigrants have on the communities that they enter in their new country (ie. the United States). A third thing that was discussed was the factors that contribute to analysis of assimilation which included socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language, and intermarriage. As a foreign language learner, I find the discussion of language as a key player in assimilation to be an interesting topic. However, what I found most interesting was intermarriage between races and how that is considered to be a definite sign that the minority party has been assimilated into the “white, native” culture. I think that it’s interesting to study intermarriage because of how shunned it was earlier on in immigration history; people thought that it just wouldn’t happen, that people would not marry outside of their own race and culture, but they were proven wrong.