I realize it's not PC to refer to America as a melting pot anymore, since the prevailing political thought is "God forbid that people should assimilate." Nevertheless, America is more of a melting pot than European countries, and recent events in France, and England, and Denmark, etc., have made it clear that we should be grateful that our immigrants are still, for the most part, melting in. Ron has put his thinking hat on and come up with a bunch of very good reasons why it's not just good luck that has us assimilating immigrants so much better than the Europeans do. Check it out.
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Off topic…Happy Mother’s Day, Book!
If it is not PC to refer to America as a melting pot, then it is even less PC to refer to America as a sanctuary, which (I predict) it is now and will continue to be in the turbulent years ahead. Others have said, we’re in 1938 again (let us all recite Santayana together), and just as in the Forties when European emigres sought refuge from Naziism, emigres will seek haven here from the rising Islamofascism and anti-Semitism in Europe in the coming decade. I read this morning that Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali will emigrate to the U.S. (even as Noam Chomsky of MIT travels to the ME to award his validation to Hezbollah, reviving the meaning of quisling in the process).