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We were much better as a melting pot.
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The secret recipe of the melting pot was - Stop killing each other over some slight variations of religion, language, etc.
and work your ass off and you can be a free landowning man and do well for your family. A very different recipe than we have now
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Actually, the secret of the melting pot was that it didn't really exist. At least, not like they taught you in grade school.
Sure, all sorts of immigrants came together to create America - all sorts of white, Western, European, Christian immigrants.
Despite what they may have believed, were an English Protestant, an Irish Catholic, and a German Lutheran, really all that different?
That's America's secret - people from different countries and cultures can come together to form a new nation... as long as they are sufficiently alike.
Look at the Left. They always seek to destroy three things: religion, family, and culture.
Why? Because these are the three things that people traditionally show greater allegiance to than the state.
Expecting immigrants to abandon their culture is foolish. People cling to their culture with great tenacity.
That's why Leftist's hate it so much.
If you want immigrants to assimilate into your culture, you need to provide them with one that reflects theirs.
The idea that you can just throw a bunch of disparate people from all over the world together, and somehow it'll work, is silly.
Anyone who believes that simply doesn't understand what it was that made America unique.