One thing I've noticed is that while cultural elements from 20th century immigrants (who are now seen as "assimilated") have made it into North American culture (e.g. Yiddish slang in NYC, Mexican-American culture in LA), now so that many people across the US merely view it as mainstream, the late 20th century and 21st century immigration waves are still making their presence felt in the culture, but often only locally (especially in big cities). Will that generation have increasing influence?
Consider that immigants who came and had kids in the late 90s and 2000s have essentially young adult, college-aged kids now in 2020, who now come of age in a more multicultural society.
One example which is still fairly new to me (as a millenial but who grew up in that part of Canada) is that in Greater Toronto and also in Ottawa, some amount of Somali and Arabic slang has already made it into high schools, used by kids of all backgrounds. For example, "wallahi" meaning "I swear to God", in situations like "wallahi, I'm not lying, this guy is totally cheating on her".
https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/ottawa...-at-least-once
Another thing seems to be Indian food is at least mainstream now in a way that wasn't necessarily so even across large US metros not too long ago (it was so obviously much earlier in the UK), and now many Americans use words like "chai". Also, even though Chinese and Japanese food were popular in the US already for more than a generation now, it seems like for at least this generation, ability to use chopsticks is normalized (if you look at many big city cafeterias and food courts) and not seen as odd at all any more.
What elements of US or North American major cities' cultures do you think are going to be brought into the mainstream by this generation of immigrants or the next? And will these elements be localized to particular cities (e.g. will there be a distinct Houston Pakistani culture and Chicago Pakistani culture the way there was a distinctive Texas German one and Midwestern German one?). Or will assimilation override any potential development of new culture in this way?
I'm thinking about these cultural elements penetrating the mainstream of various cities (so that for instance, people no longer see that thing as "exotic" but part of the city's culture). I feel like there's some lag time (e.g. Scandinavian culture is seen as part of Minnesota's culture by most Americans, but the idea that say Somali culture is, is still not super well felt, yet, by outsiders).