# What happened to the American melting pot?

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**Created:** [December 4, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-american-melting-pot/773816 "2016-12-04T14:15:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-american-melting-pot/773816/50 "2016-12-11T14:25:48Z")

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> [@Ramira](#):
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> Yes, I think I remember you are a Texan… [Politics happened](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States#Persecution_during_World_War_I) anti-foreigner paranoid politics in your war scares, [for once there were in your country no great problem with the foreign language schooling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States#Texas_German)and then your country became different. But you have no memory of it…
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> so a political mythology, deluding is continued.

Whatever the hell that was supposed to mean. Try writing coherently next time.

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