Portuguese attempt at assimilation failed because they did not try to educate their colonies enough.
Explanation:
Only Brazil is the nation where Portuguese is still spoken and some of the Portuguese culture has stayed as there is not much that the Portuguese were able to do in cultural assimilation despite having many colonies across the world at one point of time.
This was because they did not care much for education of theirs subjects and often treated them very harshly.
They were also not very willing to set up modern societies in their colonies and only were willing to profit.
<span>A combination of decreased homebuilding during the Depression and World War II coupled with the return of millions of veterans at the end of the war created the worst housing shortage in this country's history. Wilson Wyatt, the federal government's new Housing Expediter, estimated that 3 million houses needed to be built between 1946 and 1947. The demand for most of these homes was among low and middle income families. Many looked to prefabrication as a solution, believing that manufacturing and technical advances generated by the war would result in homes rolling off production lines by the million.</span>
