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Originally posted by billege
The use of "-" labels is one facet of American tribalism that is keeping our great melting pot from melting. New people come to our country, find the largest concentration of thier fellows to live near, and then learn as little about America as possible. They don't learn english, they don't experiance our culture, and we don't do much to encourage them otherwise.
Everyone retreating to thier own corners, speaking thier own languages, does not make us a mixed country deriving strength from diversity. I does make us a pack of disimilar peoples living in close proximity. That's not healthy.
Thinking of yourself as anything before you think of yourself as American is not good for this country.
If we want a strong country, we need to do everything we can to welcome those new people in, and expose them to our culture with all it can offer. As they expose us to thier culture, we all become stronger.
Hiding in our own corners, behind labels that seperate us, will destory us.
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Now I am just posing a question here...but I agree that I see this "trend" as well. Does anyone think that we function better as a society if we stick to "like-kinds"? (race, culture, skin-tone, religion, etc.) I mean there is some validity to this. We do get along better with those we feel more comfortable with. Now I am not saying, hate thy neighbor or treat those differently with disrespect or the like, but could it be more inherently natural that we follow in crowds of similar backgrounds than to interexist?
Just posing a hypothetical here...