[wardaddy]

the melting pot is a myth, it was barely true when all the immigrants were European.

Now...MTV to the contrary, it's more like a mulligan stew...simmering.

Blowback from race based preference and illegal immigration amongst other bs.

[Travis McGee]

Race is one more fault line among many which will rupture at the outset of CW2. The race hustlers who are crowbarring that divide are going to be responsible for many unneeded casualties.

[Clemenza]

The "Melting Pot" is an early 20th century LIBERAL invention. It was advanced at the time that the racialist Right/Logical Positivists/Social Darwinists, etc. were arguing that the large numbers of Jews, Southern and Eastern Europeans would cause a dilution of genes in the country and spread communism/socialism as well. The liberals at the time argued that those immigrants should be embraced and made to be good "Anglo-Saxons."

The "melting pot ideal" became popular in the 1920s and continued on as the ideal until the late 60s/early 70s. It was succeeded initially by "pluralism" and eventually "multiculturalism."

I personally have no problem with people carrying on their own cultural traditions as long as they leave me alone and don't ask me for a handout.