Maybe the U.S. used to be a melting pot, but now so many people choose to be hyphenated Americans, and most from our southern borders want to keep their full national identity and language rather than enter legally and become full partners in our nation.

Damn I REMEMBER watching that on School House Rock. That and the I'm just a bill cartoon. Now all we have is either bad fart jokes, Dora the Explorer teaching my kid Spanish, that faggotty show Blues Clues or some inane psychobabble cartoons. What ever happned to Tarzan, The Transformers, Loony Toones and Tom and Jerry. Where is that kind of programing? I might be able to let my kids watch cartoons. Right now it's the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet,The Learning or History Channels. My kids hate me! I blocked all the idiotic cartoon channels. But they are adjusting.

Cartoon channel must have crummy stuff, because my kids won't even watch it - and we haven't put any restraints on it!

Boy are we adjusting to the immigrants! I read where we installed foot wash basins at the airport in St. Paul for the Muslims to wash their f-----feet before praying! They demand prayer rooms in schools and want us to change our weekends to Thurs. and Fri. to accomodate their religion. Soon we'll have to go to the public square to watch the beheadings and to provide places for them to butcher and bleed a goat!

I know to cook toilet paper you brown on one side and throw it in the pot .

The American melting pot has melted over, courtesy of wetbacks mostly, and courtesy of the bullshit politicians who are flushing this Country down the crapper "progressively" as we speak.

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Looney Toones and Tom & Jerry? Oh man, that just brought back a shitload of memories! Droopy, Foghorn Leghorn, Wyle E. Coyote, Scooby Doo, Sylvester & Tweety. Damn my brain is working overtime trying to remember them all...

Peggy- Whoopdity-shit for you!

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Those where the good old days. What about Chilly Willy, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Hong Kong Phooey ,Top Cat and Mighty Mouse. We need tham more now than ever.

Chilly Willy would've been patrolling the Northern border today had he still been alive...

I hated that after school liberal nonsense back then, using the airwaves to brainwash us to the point that we are at now. Argh! Sid and Marty Kroft also made it look cool to take acid. where do you think that Ben and Jerry came from?
I agree with the cartoon network comments, all crap shows. My dopey sister parks her kid in front of show's like "Suzy woke up on the wrong side of the bed" Me thinks that suzy is a self indulgent little brat who needs her butt paddled.
I liked I love Lucy...

My kids have also opted out of the cartoon channel. However they love the old cartoon segments on Turner Classic Movie channel. But who needs cartoons when the Harvest Channel shows Daniel Boone and the Lone Ranger every afternoon.

There has never been a "melting pot." Think in terms of Chinatown, little Italy, and even Cham-bodia in Atlanta. Immigrants have always segregated themselves.

Dax Montana has a point.

The early colonists, who were mainly WASPs, did eventually merge into Americans. By the time of the mass immigration from Europe, Americans were already distinct from their European cousins.

Italians, being southern Europeans, were somehow considered "not white." I think their Catholicism--which is not fully compatible* with all American values but compatible enough--was part of it. The Chinese and other Asian immigrants are much more clearly different.

I think the issue of immigrants separating themselves was a natural impulse upon first arrival: find where your fellow countrymen are, where you can understand the language, where you can find familiar food, where you can get support. As they became successful, they moved out. This movement was more generational.

What does it say about the ability of certain minorities to assimilate when their Whatevertowns persist for generations?

*Notice how many Catholics, including Teddy "Floater" Kennedy, are open-borders supporters.

Woody,

Let's make a distinction between those who come here legally and want to become Americans and those who come here illegally to colonize us. Colonists don't assimilate. They force their culture upon the recipient area.

Colonization was a good thing when Europeans did it, because they brought little things like the rule of law and sanitation and modern science with them. With each passing year, post-colonial Africa gets worse and worse. In general, you can tell how bad off an African country is by how long it's been since they gained their independence.

On the other hand, colonization is bad when Third-World low-IQ Mestizos do it. They bring their culture of corruption, inability to learn beyond a limited level, and diseases with them (TB and polio were once essentially eradicated from North America; thanks to the Mestizos, we have those plus dengue fever, whooping cough, plague, malaria, and more cropping up all over the place).