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> Rhetoric is always about respecting the melting pot

That is the uniform culture. You see it in tv shows everywhere, people looking the same in every show etc. (the 1 black, 1 white woman 1 white man 1 Hispanic 1 Asian group you see everywhere in American stuff)

There used to be shows like Friends and Fresh Prince which means diversity, now everything is just the gruel of the melting pot.

The general melting pot of cultures goes back over a century in this country. It’s been a cornerstone of US idealism for a long time.

It does rest that cultures will become homogeneous over time as they melt together but I take what is being asserted to be different from that, as in it’s promoting an artificial uniformity of culture rather a naturally blended one

> as in it’s promoting an artificial uniformity of culture rather a naturally blended one

Yeah, it feels like instead of enabling a diverse set of cultures to coexist they try to enforce a culture that has a diverse set of things in it.

Which the rhetoric coming from Democrats doesn't match the assertion here. It was never about forcing diversity that I can find from any fielded candidate.

Feelings being what they are, you can't really 'disprove' them per se, but this may be more of a reaction to media representations of diversity vs actual ideals