Why is it that many Americans don't want to assimilate into America's multicultures,.....?

Question

only the English culture, as if all American immigrants were from England?

Answer 1

That is just wrong.

Answer 2

It isn't only the "English" culture. The fact is that until this generation immigrants assimilated and adopted the English LANGUAGE to communicate amongst all Americans. However, my background is German, for example, and my family still makes those foods and tells those stories and sings those songs -- not English ones. American English is the language of America. It is America's culture we assimilated into, not the English culture.

Answer 3

Look at the 13 colonies. They were all ENGLISH colonies. Therefore the colonies that became the United States of America were founded on ENGLISH culture with their own unique twist forming an AMERICAN culture, not English. Americans don't care if immigrants want to practice their culture in their homes or their little sections of cities and towns. We take offense to those who try to ram it down our throat or try to make us "assimilate" to their culture. We have our own culture thank you.

Answer 4

The American culture is far from being like the English culture.

Answer 5

American society was built on values and culture brought with the original settlers from England. The concepts of freedom and democracy were pulled from English philosophers like John Locke, our economy was based on writings from British economists like Adam Smith.

The society that we created, which has become the dominant society on the planet, was created using Anglo-European values.

It has been successful to this point, why should we be involuntarily forced to change?

Answer 6

you're misinformed. americans like me want immigrants to assimilate into AMERICAN culture, which is a mixture of many different cultures with lots of different twists that resulted from our multicultural origins. nobody is talking about english culture except you.

Answer 7

What?
England? The USA has its own culture. As far as America, which one. There's South America too. Canada is part of North America, and so is Mexico.

Answer 8

Why don't multicultuaralists, LOL!
Want assimilate into America?
My ancestors were from Ireland.
I know that alot of my friends parents and ancestors were from... oh Greece, Italy, Japan, Armenia.
It is called a melting pot not a mold for evry culture

Answer 9

There is no "English" American culture. America has it's own culture, which is independent of and vastly different from English culture.

Answer 10

I would hate to see us all living under one culture. That is what is fun about America; its diversity. However, a single language should bind us together, and that language is English. It is great to be bilingual, but to communicate we all need to speak the same language, and English is as close to being a universal language as there is.

Answer 11

American culture borrows 90% of it's customs from Europe, mainly England.

(Notice the language we're using on here? coincidence?)