Current Events > What happened to America is a "melting pot"

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Where everyone brings their own cultures and they intermingle and create a perfect harmony?

How you get yelled at on social media if you aren't 100 percent black for even THINKING about something like dreads.

A girl gets blasted because of her "asian dress" she wore to prom.

Etc.
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we put them all in the melting cages

separated from their parents, of course.
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What effect has any of that had on society? They got yelled at for a few days at most and 99 percent of the people who do those things don't even get that. I don't think that's enough to lose melting pot status.
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It's a melting pot, as in they love having meltdowns.
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

How you get yelled at on social media if you aren't 100 percent black for even THINKING about something like dreads.

A girl gets blasted because of her "asian dress" she wore to prom.

Idiots exist. The majority of people don't care about this

Serious answer: We stopped rallying around the country as an ideal. The melting pot works when different cultures rally around a common set of ideals. The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures'. Basically, you need at least some minimal level of nationalism and/or patriotism to hold it all together.
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s0nicfan posted...

Serious answer: We stopped rallying around the country as an ideal. The melting pot works when different cultures rally around a common set of ideals. The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures'. Basically, you need at least some minimal level of nationalism and/or patriotism to hold it all together.

You're funny
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Melting pot was always kind of a myth. More of a myth than it being a real aspect of human nature.
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In other words, rather than a melting pot it's an every day murderfest between different cultures fighting to make sure they're culture is the one that's worshiped and fuck the others. This is a process that's going ot be stained in blood
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tremain07 posted...

In other words, rather than a melting pot it's an every day murderfest between different cultures fighting to make sure they're culture is the one that's worshiped and fuck the others. This is a process that's going ot be stained in blood

the fuck are you on?
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s0nicfan posted...

Serious answer: We stopped rallying around the country as an ideal. The melting pot works when different cultures rally around a common set of ideals. The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures'. Basically, you need at least some minimal level of nationalism and/or patriotism to hold it all together.

What group of people tried to overwrite American culture with the culture of their own country? This post is from an alternate reality, it certainly doesn't describe anything in America.
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legendary_zell posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Serious answer: We stopped rallying around the country as an ideal. The melting pot works when different cultures rally around a common set of ideals. The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures'. Basically, you need at least some minimal level of nationalism and/or patriotism to hold it all together.

What group of people tried to overwrite American culture with the culture of their own country? This post is from an alternate reality, it certainly doesn't describe anything in America.

Christian Conservatives? I said CULTURE. Not COUNTRY. Big difference.
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There's a powerstruggle in america for the most dominate culture now rather than a blend of them, everybody only wants their side to exist and the others to be bent to heel or eliminated completely, you've seen the news, it's not even just liberals and conservatives, it's every culture in america thinking they deserve and should be the top culture of the country
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It stopped being a melting pot and more of a potluck the day "cultural exchange" became demonized as "cultural appropriation."
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s0nicfan posted...

legendary_zell posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Serious answer: We stopped rallying around the country as an ideal. The melting pot works when different cultures rally around a common set of ideals. The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures'. Basically, you need at least some minimal level of nationalism and/or patriotism to hold it all together.

What group of people tried to overwrite American culture with the culture of their own country? This post is from an alternate reality, it certainly doesn't describe anything in America.

Christian Conservatives? I said CULTURE. Not COUNTRY. Big difference.

You're right about that. I misread your post and I apologize for that. I still don't think you're correct though, people are pulling from different elements of our national identify. There's never been one thing you could point to and say "this is the American culture and values" because there's always been a counter thread that was always there from the beginning.

Any appearance that there was an agreement before is because only some voices were counted at all. Of course there will be somewhat more conflict as more voices begin to count. But everyone is still fundamentally pulling from American values and rallying around the flag/constitution/declaration.

For example, this is a country that had always had a strong Christian majority and identity, but it's also always had a lot of different sects and religions and a desire for freedom of and freedom from religion and the establishment of religion. Both are American values that go back to before the founding.
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s0nicfan posted...

The melting pot falls apart when different fundamentally disagree on the founding tenets of the country and actively try to overwrite those tenets with their own cultures

It falls apart when either side is uncompromising. The answer is not to be uncompromising back, unless you never actually wanted a melting pot in the first place.

Which begs he question as much to the existing as to the newcomers.
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