Word: unum
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...United States has long been touted as a melting pot, which combines the elements of different cultures and races into one uniform soup. This is the ultimate compromise, a blending that creates an e pluribus unum cultural hegemony that everyone buys into. Whether you're Black, Asian, European or Native American, the culture you identify with most is the culture of McNachos and Mickey Mouse...
...thought-control techniques popularly called "political correctness." Both of these intertwined movements create a tendency for minorities to place ethnicity above individuality and huddle under banners that label them as victims of, rather than participants in, the larger society. "The multiethnic dogma," writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "belittles unum and glorifies pluribus...
...these harbingers of a long slide into bi- or multilingualism and a culturally fragmented citizenry -- the Quebecification of America? There are those who fear so. "Whatever happend to the idea of E pluribus unum?" asks Robert Parker, chairman of Arizonans for Official English, an organization endorsing English as the state's official language. Republican Representative Toby Roth of Wisconsin is so alarmed he has introduced a bill -- the Declaration of Official Language Act -- that would eliminate bilingual ballots and require English-proficiency exams for all citizenship applications. Last March, California Republican Congressman John Doolittle submitted a constitutional amendment that would...
...world will not become America. Anyone who has been to a baseball game in Osaka, or a Pizza Hut in Moscow, knows instantly that she is not in Kansas. But America may still, if only symbolically, be a model for the world. E Pluribus Unum, after all, is on the dollar bill. As Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the director-general of UNESCO, has said, "America's main role in the new world order is not as a military superpower, but as a multicultural superpower...
...Americans knew what to do with people who seemed different: obliterate the differences. Today increasing numbers of nominal Americans refuse to see America as anything more than a collection of ZIP codes. Their ideal is Yugoslavia, without machine guns. Multiculturalism, in the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "belittles unum and glorifies pluribus...