JohnStOnge wrote:1). So you think less cultural ideas and opinions are better than more?
Depends. If you've got one culture that has opinions that lead to the correct decisions then having more cultural opinions decreases efficiency. And I think the United States is in the "decreased efficiency" mode.
2). Tell us more about this "United States Culture" you speak of...
Well, the one that got us to where we got had accepted conventions. Like marriage being between one man and one woman. Like being grounded in Christian Faith. And, no, I'm not a Christian but that was part of the culture. There were non Christians but there were all sorts of associations between Christianity and government. Prayer before high school football games. Prayer in schools every morning. Prayer by the Apollo Eight astronauts as they orbited the moon on Christmas Eve.
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Father Knows Best. Others. Those were expressions of the culture. You may not think it should have been like that. But that's how it was. They were expressions related to what was culturally accepted. There was no effort to act as though "multiculturalism" was something to be embraced.
And we were a more efficient, effective country at the time.
You have to face it, America has always been multicultural. Prime example of this is New York City where you have Hells Kitchen, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Spanish Harlem, East Harlem (large Chinese population) etc.. Even today, I read some time back that about 35% of NYC residents are foreign-born. These different cultures have given us US Presidents, actors, industrialists, entrepreneurs, etc... Without all these different cultures we wouldn't have Pabst, Miller, Schiltz, Carnegie Hall, countless food dishes that are considered "American", music, etc.... You benefit greatly from this melting pot aka multiculturalism. You of all people, living in Louisiana (with the heavy Spanish, French, African, Native American history) should recognize that. You want to talk about language, i'm 30 yrs old and am waiting for the day when my cousins from New Orleans learn to speak English so I can understand what the fuck they are saying! Creole is a prime example of how successful the blending of cultures have been.
If you don't like it, if you don't like all these different people then perhaps you should leave. I hear Russia is nice as long as you're white and straight.
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It was primarily Dutch and then English. The Irish began pouring in, starting around the mid 1840s. 800,000 Germans game into NYC in the 1850s. However, nothing you said disputes that we are a nation built on the cultures of others. 
