Is America still a melting pot or have we become a boiling pot for immigrants?
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i totally agree with you, i don't get these people who have another nations flag on there car and they talk about how great there home country is but then they live here and raise there children here? my grandfather is from puerto rico which is already American but when his parents took him and his brothers and sisters here they told them straight up they better learn english and speak english! People today want our benefits and way of living but not support the new country in which they moved too!?!
You got that right, sister. It's a tad out of hand.
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The number of people from first or second generation families serving in the military answers your last question. That said, along with the "melting pot" analogy, another one that I find useful is the "mosaic" analogy. In a melting pot, everyone has to lose some of their background to mix with the others, and as we can see just from the Irish Americans or Italian Americans (to name to of our earlier immigrants), that's not always the case--we're still proud of our Irish or Italian heritage. But a mosaic is a large picture comprised of many different tiles of different colors, and so the person can still be Irish, or Italian, or Latino, or Black, and yet also be part of a greater whole--America.
America was never a melting pot, there have always been little chinas, little mexicos, little italy's, etc...it is just more evident now.
can't people be american citizens and still be proud of thier heritage?
Honestly, no, we are no longer a melting pot or mosaic, or anything of the sort. We have gotten away from the blending of cultures by immigrants accepting our way of life and bringing parts of their culture to be assimilated. Instead, they now show up here, expect us to accept their old country's ways and customs, and we are too weak and "politically correct" to tell them that its either be an American in this country or get out. If you happen to read Mexico's immigration policy, you'd see THEY have the right idea.
Like Vaughn, I prefer to think of it, not as a melting pot, but rather as a "salad bowl."
But the rest of your question leaves me kinda scratching my head. What exactly are the "core values of being an American citizen as a nation?"
Are you upset because those who flee oppressive governments and famine come to the US by any means possible, but refuse to drape themselves in a US flag? Are you angry that they continue to remember fondly their homeland and the people they left behind?
I simply don't understand. How should they "immigrate fully into our society?"
Edit to post: Again, I don't understand what those "core values" are that you refer to. The "true Americans" are the ones that used to live in wigwams and hunt with spears and, frankly, I'm not in any particular hurry to get back to those "core values."
I simply fail to see how holding on to one's culture makes them less than a good American.
And, while we're on the subject, can you tell me how many other countries have a pledge of allegiance?
America is a memory. Until both Conservatives and Liberals, Republicans and Democrates make an effort to protect the industrial base of the United States of America, our once great nation will continue to spiral out of control. The USA, not Rome, or Greece, or the Ming dynasty was the greatest civilization mankind ever created. Whether America's enemies can live up to the legacy of what they destroyed is a question for the future.
The present demands we as a people understand a country, any country cannot equip its militrary without an industrial base from which to equip it. We, both libs and cons must force our government to goven people not corporate interests.
If the American working class makes a product and labor for it costs a dollare and a non-American labor makes the same product for a dime, the only way to survive is for the government (party affilation aside) to even the field with a 90 cent tariff. If a company wants to move off shore, fine it's a free country go where you please, but if they want access to the American market, we must go back to the pre-Reagan era before Clinton made Reagan's mistakes a disaster and make them equal to American labor. It worked for 200 years and in the past 20 we have deteriorated this country to the brink of world war. All other industrialized countries in the world protect their economic industrial base, thereby protecting their people, and American politicians should the very least to the same.
Before you pledge allegiance to anything, understand what it stands for.
it's hard to be an american these days, since Bush has done a good job of damaging the credibility of America throughout the world.....The world views America as a country that doesn't listen to reason especially since we elected Bush twice......Honestly who would be proud to be American presently with the path the that our leader has taken the country on....
if you are talking about America as USA then you must know it is what it is because of immigrants coming here and working hard,depending on God and being united.Our image is changing though around the world and within our own country...people expect more just because "we`re americans" (you know...BETTER JOBS,MORE MONEY etc..) we should humble down and go back to where we began as work hard,depend on God and be united...and not worry about what our neighbor is driving or his house or his boat..SAY NO TO ENVYNESS,RACISM AND HATE!
It's a pot that is boiling over. There is alot of steam right now, soon the pot will crack from too much heat.
YOU and Michael Savage are right
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These illegal immigrants think that everything should to them on a silver platter little do they know that you have to work in this country. Yes our country has become a country demanding rights and this has to stop.
I think that the only boiling point is the illegal immigrants waving the flags of their home countries and chanting Down to America.
Sure, immigrants can hang onto their heritage and pledge 100% to America, but many DON'T. A "melting pot" means you MELT into one big country. It use to be that way in the 1800s.
They seem to care more about their home country. When someone yells "VIVA MEXICO," that's not pledging allegiance to America! When they fly a huge Mexican over a tiny American flag it is easy to see where their loyalties lie. When they REFUSE to learn English, that shows where their loyalties lie.
If can't be 100% loyal, stay away. We don't need you.
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