We still place far too much emphasis on our separateness, our heritage, ethnic background, skin color, etc. We live in the age of hyphenated Americans: Asian-Americans, Italian-Americans, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Indian-Americans, and Native Americans, to name just a few. Heres an idea: How about just Americans? That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our separateness is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot. There is nothing wrong with people being proud of their different heritages.
We have a long tradition of folks from all different backgrounds incorporating their traditions into the American experience, but we must resist the politically correct trend of changing the melting pot into a salad bowl. E pluribus Unum.
- Bobby Jindal.
Jindal thinks that racism wouldn't exist if minorities would just act like White people.
What he, and other anti-hyphenated-Americans don't understand is, a melting pot changes the nature of all materials put in it, not just the small bits. When you add carbon to iron, the carbon changes...
but so does the iron, and through that, both emerge as one stronger material.