Is America a melting pot or multicultural?

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lose our identity as Americans.

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Is America a melting pot, multicultural, or a clusterfrick? by

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i think we are more like a gumbo

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People used to come to this country hoping to blend in and learn the language and get educated.

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This works quicker when your ethnic group looks close enough to the majority of the resident population. It's why Irish and Polack immigrants in the early 1900's were eventually able to assimilate. However, when you look drastically different, the effects of xenophobia towards you are more long lasting.

An example of this is how you tend to see "Asian" kids winning the national spelling bee competitions, and people openly question why you never see an American kid win it. The kids are often first generation Americans that were born here, yet their minority status leads people to believe that they are foreigners. If it were won by a kid born in Russia and raised in the US, you likely would never have someone make that assumption.

It used to be a melting pot. Now it's multicultural. There are areas in this country where english isn't spoken or written, and where the inhabitants don't consider themselves Americans.

That wouldn't have flown prior to this century.

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they can enmesh into our culcha

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FiFY