If this were at all possible. it would indeed be the kind of uniformity and conformity that we do not want in a democracy. There was a time when many in America did feel that this kind of assimilation was possible. They tended to disregard or to minimize the cultural contributions of our immigrant groups. Our depreciation of these contributions was due not only to our ignorance but also to our growing pains. which gave us an excessive zeal to prove our Americanism as if it could only be something altogether native and uniform. We are rectifying this error today.
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