Melting Pot Of Culture Analysis

From the establishment of the first colony in Jamestown, to the immigration of millions of Europeans through Ellis Island, the United States of America is a melting pot of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Every immigrant’s story is different, and to generalize that all immigrants came to America for a single reason would be unfair. America is a land of prestige and freedom where many people were and are still drawn. While all three authors agreed on America’s sense of diversity, Eric Liu’s viewpoints on the lack of shared identity and the need to foster an Americanization movement in the United States deemed to be most valid to my perception of what it means to be an American. By no means do I believe that a melting pot of cultures is bad. I think the fact …show more content…
With this process of Americanization, the role of both political parties is required. Learning to conserve our historic ideals while adapting them to changes in the demographics of the American citizenship is the key to locating our lost sense of nationhood. On the other hand, Warshawsky’s overall idea is pretty valid, but somewhat confusing to follow. At the end of his article, he mentions that it would be a terrible day in history if America ever politically and culturally redefined itself. I don’t agree with that statement because I believe that America is and always has been constantly changing and through that redefinition is where we have already lost a sense of nationhood. What we need to do now, and what Liu would agree with, is restore that sense of American unity. Similarly, I disagree with Elazar’s three political cultures. While I think some Americans fall within the definitions of the individualistic, moralistic, and traditionalistic political cultures, I think it is completely impossible to sort every single diverse individual citizen of this country into those generic