Without farther study, or evidence, readers should not be made to believe that most people associate the word “assimilation” with the year 1950, whose ideals are sixty-six years old. Jacoby (2004) makes her opinion on assimilation clear when she states, “As for the melting pot, if anything, that seems even more threatening: who wants to be melted down, after all- for the sake of national unity or anything else?” (p. 423). This quotation creates the feeling that individualism is far more important than the unity of the country to the author. Although individualism is an extremely important concept, it is crucial to have national unity in a country as large as the Unites States. It is more than possible to have national unity, and individualism existing at the same
Without farther study, or evidence, readers should not be made to believe that most people associate the word “assimilation” with the year 1950, whose ideals are sixty-six years old. Jacoby (2004) makes her opinion on assimilation clear when she states, “As for the melting pot, if anything, that seems even more threatening: who wants to be melted down, after all- for the sake of national unity or anything else?” (p. 423). This quotation creates the feeling that individualism is far more important than the unity of the country to the author. Although individualism is an extremely important concept, it is crucial to have national unity in a country as large as the Unites States. It is more than possible to have national unity, and individualism existing at the same