brilliant post of true multi-culturalism

Excellent post about how capitalism shapes new Americans more than anything.
There are lessons to be gleamed from the 19th and early 20th cent. immigration experience. My own caveat to the piece is that back in the day, the host country, America, was much more confident of it's own value and insistent on it's one culture. Today, we have lost part of that, although not as badly as other Western countries. As Mark Steyn has said "you can't assimilate with a nullity." The blame for this falls squarely on the spindly shoulders of Leftist academia which has claimed since the 60's that the US is a unique place of manevolence, inequity, racism, violence and hatred. Most immigrants ignore this in the face of the evidence all about them, but the present culture, sadly starts to believe it. I want the US to be as vibrant and accomidating as it was for my ancestors in the 19th and 20th century. I also want the US to keep demanding that one becomes an American like it did when my German and Czech ancestors got off the boat. It was for the betterment of the country, the immigrants and, most importantly, the offspring of the immigrants.