The Melting Pot

[Jolly]

The melting Pot is something America used to be pretty good at. People immigrated here and wanted to become "good Americans". Not that they completely lost all habit or cultural identities from whence they came, but their new home came first. Names were Americanized. New cultural habits became ingrained. Immigrants were especially proud of citizenship and were quick to tell anybody that they were now American.

Maybe it's out of proportion, but the public acts of support for Hamas and Hezbollah kinda worry me. They make me wonder whether we have somewhat abandoned the Melting Pot.

I know we have, with some of the things I read about in Muslim neighborhoods. I know we have, in regards to man of the legal and illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Have we abandoned an idea that has worked really well, melding people from all over the globe into a single national identity?

[Horace]

I might give partial blame to the fact that the mainstream all but hates America and western civilization in general, what with the racism and carbon footprints and whatnot.

[Jolly]

Call me a dinosaur and a bigot, but I think there is much to be said for Western culture and governance being superior to much of the rest of the world.

[Mik]

In years past maintaining contact with your homeland was difficult to impossible, slow and expensive. Now it’s free and constant. Immigrants do not have the same motivation to become integrated into their communities.