One Big Group?

After our discussion on Tuesday I thought a lot about what we were talking about. When the question "are we moving towards one big American ethnic group" was asked I felt that this was something I had never taken the time to think about. Everyone has their own heritage that they choose to either follow by, show pride towards, or even just acknowledging its there and thats it. Like I said in class everyone is different and is situational depending on the family and their beliefs. I do agree that there is a slow disconnect from our original roots as time goes on. While tihs is taking place I don't think there is one exact reason that it is taking place. Just like each family chooses whether or not to acknowledge their heritage they also choose to not acknowledge it for different reasons. I feel that it would be very hard to find one reason why it is there is this ongoing disconnect from one's heritage. One obvious reason that could add to it is the fact that as generations go on, they are farther away from those who may have not been born in this country. So for them all they know is their country as well as what their parents tell them and surround them as they grow up.
The question was asked, "do we think that we eventually will just be one big group with our heritages no longer involved?" I don't think the pride of our heritages will ever be completely gone from our lives. I do think that we our connections to them are nothing to what they used to be but they are still there.