[Travis McGee]

It WAS a melting pot. For 30 years the liberal 'rats have done everything in their power to break that melting pot, and advance separate race identities, even creating a "new race" of so-called Hispanics. (Who can be black Cubans, Indians from Peru, or Castillians from Madrid.)

[mylife]

I see lots of pride in cultural roots in America, pride in distant roots, but the Tap Root tends to be America itself. IMHO

[Ramius]

The melting pot was a better concept.

Liberals have attempted to turn it more into a tossed salad. Sure, it's all mixed together, but the ingredients still keep their own identity. This is not better.

The "melting pot" doesn't have to mean even that cultures and the history of ancestors are wiped out. My own family were mainly Norwegian immigrants and they held onto family traditions for all the generations until now, but they made a decision to learn english, to become citizens, and to become Americans and adopt an American culture.

None of that means they had to stop making lefse.

[U S Army EOD]

But if you are from Spain, you are not an Hispanic.