Jessica Alba Is Pro-Assimilation. Red hot and politically incorrect. My kind of girl. I don’t see how anyone could get angry at a girl as cute as Alba, but some did over comments she made about not considering herself a “Latina” or speaking Spanish because she’s been assimilated into American culture. Because apparently an expectation that people learn the language of the country they live in and embrace that country’s culture is racist or something. As another politically-incorrect person – Teddy Roosevelt – once said: There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
Coming to America and refusing to follow American laws and customs, and refusing to integrate with American society, translates into disrespect for what America is and stands for. Melting pot. Origins of the term[edit] The first use in American literature of the concept of immigrants "melting" into the receiving culture are found in the writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. In his Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Crevecoeur writes, in response to his own question, "What then is the American, this new man? " that the American is one who "leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.
He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. A magazine article in 1875 used the metaphor explicitly: "The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace; one generation, a single year even-- transforms the English, the German, the Irish emigrant into an American. In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner also used the metaphor of immigrants melting into one American culture. Israel Zangwill[edit] United States[edit] School House Rock - Great American Melting Pot (America Rock) Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides.