America has been called a melting pot, and that it certainly is. Never in the history of the world have so many cultures been gathered in one place under one government. At one time, I enjoyed the differences between people, the contrast between cultures, that, while not always, for the most part got along without much conflict. In this new melding of races, however, I see a couple different things happening. I see a loss of individual and cultural identity. I see mixed race couples used as a political tool to further the blending. Which really boils down to one thing...we really haven't learned to get along. No one, it seems, will be truly happy until everyone looks, thinks and acts the same. That to me, if diversity is TRULY the goal, is a failure. It is a failure of man to look at another's differences and be ok with it, to appreciate it. It smacks of a need for one to control or dominate another or think they are somehow entitled to compensation from this generation for the misdeeds of the past. While others speak from a historical perspective, I do not. I am responsible for the actions I've taken in this lifetime...nothing more. I owe no one for the deeds of my forbears. The world does not owe anyone anything, myself included. All I am owed is what I earn, and I do so as honestly as I'm able. Not everyone does, however. Voting yourself benefits you haven't earned is tantamount to armed robbery. Most don't seem to see it that way, but that's exactly what it is.
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