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Entry: Sept. 11, 2001: Adrift Among the Dead Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sept_11_2001_adrift_among_the_dead#4842 Post contents: Randall Creamer, Hollywood's picture of just about everything is untrue. However I think to say that America is not a melting pot is really splitting hairs. It may be true that a good portion of todays population is decended from those here before the civil war. I am not sure what the actual numbers are in regard to that. What you also need to keep in mind though is that a good portion of the population of of America before the civil war was already ethnically and racially mixed with Native Americans, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Polish, Irish, Jews, and black. Of course the melting pot for lack of a better term is not something unique to the U.S. All of the countries of Europe had also experienced immigrations and assimilations of various groups before even coming to the new world. The first immigrants to this country actually came across a land bridge from Asia. There is also a fallacy in your argument that 2/3 of the current population is descended from those here before the civil war and that is that this group descended from inhabitants prior to the civil war would have remained seperate from the other third. It is more likely that most of that 2/3 has since been mixed with that remaining third many times over. Sent at: 2008 09 06