Since the immigration not only from Europe, but also from Africa, and Asia, to the United States, America can be said as being a melting pot of cultures. The culture that we learn and live in now is basically evolved from European peasants, Afro-Americans, Germans, and Irish, which was held together by those immigrants. Although the battle over the union certainly did not remove the nativism and may have even drawn some ethnic groups, for example, the Germans closer together, that is the common cause that both Anglo-Americans and immigrants fought for in the Northern army and on the home front instilled notions of mutual respect. However, I think assimilation is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that people would lost
