Cultural Assimilation and its Delusions (#4)

The article by Kumar focuses on the idea of a melting pot in our society today.  This means that the culture we live in is becoming more and more homogeneous.  I think that this is because as more people immigrate into the country, they find the need to become what could be described as Americanized.  It can be looked at as a high school.  As much as everyone wants to stand out and be unique and different, they actually just form into one another and all become the same.  However, even though everyone basically is the same, we all find the need to point out one another's differences.  

To look at the nativist's point of view on cultural assimilation, they included linguistic assimilation.  They stated that new European immigrants were expected to discard their home language and start learning and using English.  Although this is true, i don't not necessarily believe that this is a terrible thing to happen.  Realistically, there is no way that families can completely keep their language alive and not assimilate to the  language of the country that they are in (even if the United States doesn't have an official language).  This is the same with any country, for if I moved to France, I would probably lose a lot of my English, and that isn't necessary a terrible thing, it just means that I am trying to survive in that location.  If there were no linguistic assimilation, there would be no language loss, and no new languages would be created.