People have often heard America referred to as a “melting pot” –
a nation of diversity. This is an undeniable truth. People have
come to America from all points of the globe. But until 1965
America was a unique culture that required immigrants to
assimilate into its unique society. We did not ask that people
forget their heritage or leave it behind. We did require that
they leave their “culture” behind. After all, did they not come
here to escape a failing culture? John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court wrote in the Federalist Papers #2, paragraphs
5 & 6: “With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that
Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country
to one united people — a people descended from the same
ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same
religion, attached to the same principles of government, very
similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint
counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a
long and bloody war, have nobly