For just as there are interactions between groups. so there are interactions between individual and group. To attempt to understand all the multiple interactions that occur is to appreciate the value of democratic life. Moreover. in a country where everyone is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants and whose people are as heterogeneous as are ours. there is no one pattern of culture. There are. rather. patterns of culture. and we should be proud of our cultural pluralism. for it has contributed to the richness and the variety of American life. For anyone to have imagined that he wanted to assimilate in such a countrylose his identity as a member of his original groupwas sheer nonsense. for the reason that this is actually impossible in a country based upon multiple cultures.
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