In class, Jeff posed a question pertaining to us eventually losing our individual ethnicities and amalgating into one unified European-American indentity. This is a funny question to me, because it seems that this was the purpose of American in the beginning! It was MEANT to be the melting pot, where it didn't matter where you came from, it was supposed to be a place to start over. But humans with their inability to adapt to change created barriers between different groups and we made ourselves no better off than we were in Europe, with the same inaccurate perceptions of each other. With the passage of only 250 years, we've come a long way though, but we've gone over that in classes thoroughly so I won't get into it again. What I'm wondering is, are we actually getting closer to this American Dream? This dream where everyone views each other as equal, and their past doesn't matter? Is this even a place we want to be? Do we want to strip ourselves from our heritages and our past? Is this a positive or a negative? I believe we are getting closer to this uniform American indentity, and I think it is a great thing. All the cultural aspects of different ethnicities has already been well established in this country so I don't see that vanishing, all that would vanish is all this prejudice and discriminatory action towards someone based on their origins. If we continue in this trend, we have the opportunity to become a truly great nation.
Samuel Roux, Week 8 Post 1
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