And I hope all the folks declaiming the horrors of multiculturalism don’t eat ethnic food. I thought it was basically a redo of the old “buy the world a coke” add, lots of ethnic mixing in there too.
An America where people subscribe to the notion that no matter what your station or country of origin, you could speak, worship, own property, and pursue as much education as you could find the opportunity with impunity.
Used to be you’d arrive with the vow to leave behind those aspects of your origins that kept you from those opportunities. One of them was your language. The other was that you were going to raise your children so that they could participate in those freedoms as fully unencumbered Americans. This is why English was insisted on by the early immigrants.
This embodied the notion of a melting pot. All the talents and experiences coming together within the Great American Experiment created something better than all those other countries and traditions separately.
A nation where people of other countries are urged to arrive illegally to take advantage of social welfare programs, are encouraged to flout the laws and traditions, and allowed to use their language as a way to alienate those that are providing for the public benefits they enjoy isn’t a melting pot.
It’s a chamber pot.