Melting Pot Or Mosaic?

[AMart]

We were never a “melting pot” where everyone spoke English and melted into society.

Our cities were segregated.....Little Italy, China Town, German Town...each ethnic group kept their same communities and spoke the old language and old customs.

It was the second generation that integrated....just like today

We are a melting pot because for the most part those ethnic areas don't exist anymore. There are exceptions like KoreaTown in LA. What broke up the ethic enclaves was the interstate highway system and the creation of the suburb.

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. How did earlier immigrants deal with their immigration?

They became Americans, per Teddy Roosevelt’s doctrine: “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”― Theodore Roosevelt



On the Lower East Side, NYC, vast waves of Jewish immigrants worked assiduously to learn the English language, and American traditions. And the Jewish newspaper, the Forward, worked with them toward that end.

“A Bintel Brief was a Yiddish advice column, starting in early 20th century New York City, that anonymously printed readers' questions and posted replies. The column was started by Abraham Cahan, the editor of Der Forverts (The Forward), in 1906.[1] Recent Jewish immigrants, predominantly from Eastern Europe, asked for advice on various facets of their acculturation to America, including economic, family, religious and theological difficulties.[2] In Yiddish, bintel means "bundle" and brief means a "letter" or "letters".

It was a part of some people's lives to such an extent as are radio and television today. It has been the subject of books,[3] essays,[4][5] a graphic novel[6][7][8] and a Yiddish play.[9] Much as "to Xerox" could be described as a commoditization of a trademarked name, the term "A Bintel Brief" has been known to be used as a generic description.[10]

The original printed Yiddish format, which The New York Times described as "homespun advice .. which predated Dear Abby,"[11] continued at least until 1970.[12]

. The focus of the Jewish Daily Forward's Bintel Brief column was "every aspect of the immigrant experience."[16] The goal was "Americanization." Just as immigrants needed direct help from others, there was also a need for indirect help: Some letters were written by more literate fellow immigrants, not always for free.[15] A Bintel Brief




Under the auspices of the current anti-Americanization, anti-assimilation Democrat Party.....this is the new immigrant.

Linda Sarsour, Democrat activist, to Muslim Americans: Our Priority Is Not To Assimilate; It Is To Our People And Allah

 

[rightwinger]

We were never a “melting pot” where everyone spoke English and melted into society.

Our cities were segregated.....Little Italy, China Town, German Town...each ethnic group kept their same communities and spoke the old language and old customs.

It was the second generation that integrated....just like today

We are a melting pot because for the most part those ethnic areas don't exist anymore. There are exceptions like KoreaTown in LA. What broke up the ethic enclaves was the interstate highway system and the creation of the suburb.

Some have the nostalgiac fantasy that all immigrants back then blended in to a melting pot and assimilated.
They didn’t

 

[Unkotare]

Immigrants today are assimilating linguistically, economically, and culturally just as those who came before them did. Just like those who came before them, they also have ******* idiots with no sense of history or the spirit of the United States who ***** and moan about them. In 6 or 7 generations, some of their descendants will probably be doing the same stupid ******* thing to a new generation of immigrants.

 

[AMart]

We were never a “melting pot” where everyone spoke English and melted into society.

Our cities were segregated.....Little Italy, China Town, German Town...each ethnic group kept their same communities and spoke the old language and old customs.

It was the second generation that integrated....just like today

We are a melting pot because for the most part those ethnic areas don't exist anymore. There are exceptions like KoreaTown in LA. What broke up the ethic enclaves was the interstate highway system and the creation of the suburb.

Some have the nostalgiac fantasy that all immigrants back then blended in to a melting pot and assimilated.
They didn’t

Like I said before the people who experienced the most widespread discrimination emigrating to the USA were Europeans. The non Europeans have experienced the least amount by far. People actually assimilate a bit faster today, but it wouldn't be the case if the Europeans had not figured it all out in the USA first. Nowhere has this happened anywhere on Earth at these numbers.