| Kasz216 said: Usually second and third generation immigrants give up a lot of their cultures though.
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It depends on the immigrants, what their host culture was and how compatable it is with our own.
Germans, Italians, Irish, English, and other western cultured immigrants adapted well into Americanized western culture. That's what the "melting pot" referred too, it never reffered to non-westernized peoples.
We have far too many Hispanics in the US now, and that is keeping them from culturaly integrating. Other immigrants such as Muslims have no desire to live as we do in the US.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
