[ken5050]

From the "graying" hair description...( though I myself perfer "salt and pepper", LOL) we're about the ame age...I'm 56,, and grew up in NYC..in the melting pot, as it were...at that time, and when we first learned about the US as a nation of immigrants, the key word, uses over and over again in our civics textbook, was "assimilation"...now, it doesn't exist...go ahead, pick up any currently used elementary, even HS history test, and try and find the word...and that's the problem...immigrants aren't assimilating...when voting instructions at the polls are available in 5 or more languages, then Houston, we've got a BIG problem..

[BushCountry]

I don't know if you noticed, but my point about the non-english speaking restaurants was not casual. This problem of non-assimilation is decades old, it is not new.

As to us being a nation of immigrants, I wonder how many people realize that the number immigrants as a percentage to the population is less today than in the 20s, 30s, 40s, ect...?