Le 2011/04/14 17:28, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:42:24 -0400, Alain wrote:
>
>> In the USA, you are expected to forego your original culture and take
>> the Great Melting Pot as your culture. It looks, at least seem from
>> abroad, that it's mostly "Do and be as I am".
>
> I don't really see the majority opinion being the 'melting pot', but
> rather an "adopt our way of doing things or get out".  The melting pot
> idea is more about integrating other cultures into ours and the US
> growing that way, and there's an apparently strong movement to move
> towards less integration of other cultures' ideas into US culture and a
> strong push towards "you moved here, you're American now, so act like
> it!" (obvious in statements like 'learn English if you move here' and the
> recent laws that have been passed banning Sharia law (which I really
> don't understand the need for, quite stupid and ignorant if you ask me)).
>
> Jim

My statement is more about the *perception* from outside the USA, not as 
it's realy appening.


Alain

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