Cultural Melting Pot

In the United States, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to share our communities with others who are culturally diverse. In some areas of the world, it is rare or unheard of for persons who are different that the majority to live amongst the natives of the land. The people from these area may have never been exposed face to face to someone different from themselves. It would then make sense for these individuals once they became of the age their culture deemed appropriate to pair up with a partner and procreate, creating an offspring who is also the same genetically as the majority group.

In simpler terms, for instance a person born in X country, which is populated mainly by X people is likely to pair with another X, and any offspring will be purely X. In America, it is in fact the natives of the land who are the minority, and peoples for all over the world the majority. In a country such as America where the culture is so diverse it stands to reason that the population is much less explicitly X and much more XYZ or XP or QRM or any other of countless cultural mixes. But what does that mean? One thing that is fortunate about our country especially in more current times is that the norm is tolerance over discrimination for racially mixed individuals. This is not at all to say that we are a perfect model society or that discrimination does not exist, but in this country it is more acceptable to be who you are regardless of who anyone else is than in many other countries, so we seem to have gotten a few things right.

There is certainly more to be explored with this topic, and it can be a sticky and someone uncomfortable thing to bring up and speak about. What we do know is that while we are a melting-pot or salad bowl (whichever is the more socially acceptable term of the time) society, we still identify with the heritage and culture of our ancestors who came from many different lands. One of the things that makes America so great is its cultural...