But we never melted together into a homogeneous society.

但我们从未真正地融合，形成一个由同种族人组成的社会。

The government's avowed aim, however, is to maintain " a substantially homogeneous society into which newcomers, from whatever sources, will merge themselves" .

然而，政府公开的目标是维持“一个基本上同质化的社会，新来者无论来自何种来源，都将融入其中”。