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[quote=GRIZ326,242555]>>>America is said to be a melting pot. Is it true that every immigrant can be melted into the mainstream "White people culture."

The melting pot worked well when the immigrants came from the northern parts of Europe because everyone looked alike even though they spoke different languages. The melting pot still worked pretty well with the Italian and Greek immigrants although they held on to their native traditions more than other groups.

The Chinese community has always been separate from but compatible with the rest of America. Everyone on this forum knows just how different our languages are and how difficult it is to learn the other's language. With that big a barrier, the Chinese had to create a separate community to survive - but the community was generally compatible with the rest of America.

Unfortunately, the black community remains separate and largely incompatible with the rest of America. The melting pot did not work. That group of immigrants, once freed from slavery, was at first rejected by white America and when white America finally extended an olive branch it was rebuffed by black America. Please realize that this comment is a gross over-simplification and that there are exceptions on both sides. And finally after almost 50 years of government regulations forcing black and white people together in the workplace, many black and white people are finding common ground.

And what America did to the native Americans was horrifying and then we put these people on reservations. We have never given them a chance to melt into the melting pot.

In recent years we see that immigrants to America do not want to melt into the melting pot. This is usually marked by an unwillingness to learn the English language, but beyond that is marked by a separate and incompatible communities. In the case of the Hispanic peoples, many within those communities are illegal aliens.

So that is a grossly over-simplified look at the state of the melting pot.

>>>I have ever heard of " the Supremacy of the White" principle in US. Is it the case still existing in US?

Fortunately, White Supremacists are a small fringe group of white people. Some of them are just crazy; some of them are racists; some of them are just plain bad. There are racists and crazy and bad people within every community...although at times it does seem that America produces a bumper crop of them. :([/quote]

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