assimilation

August 17, 2008 RE: Quotable Quotes – Linda Chavez, Syndicated Columnist

Ms. Chavez opines, ‘Isn’t it time we quit obsessing about race and ethnicity? America has successfully integrated millions of people from every region of the world. Every indication is that we are still doing so. The naysayers keep being proven wrong when it comes to the great American assimilation machine.’

We have historically been very successful with the assimilation of peoples from other countries who desire and seek after the freedoms that America provides for its citizens. But we appear to be entering a new age of assimilation which is not comparable to the assimilations of the past. Just look at your OFFICIAL VOTING MATERIALS information that you received from the Maricopa County Recorder of Elections.
It is written in TWO different languages ! Is this assimilation ? Where are the other minority languages that have become part of the success story of the great American melting pot ? Yet, Ms. Chavez says that the naysayers keep being proven wrong ?
Might we be better served as a country to adhere to the following admonition –
Let us recognize and appreciate our diverse cultural heritages yet stand together as one nation indivisible.