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Democracy versus the Meltlilng Pot
Kallen: Democracy versus the Melting
Pot
1. AMERICA - a unison - melting pot (Anglo-Saxon
tradition)
or
- a harmony - plurality
2. The government has to create conditions, where every
cultural group has a chance to live its life.
3. Ancestors {Vorfahren} determine our way of living and
how we search happiness. We develop towards a rational society.
4. He discribes an ideal society, where every nation is
able to live peacefully.
Mayo-Smith
1. He sees problem swith the integration of
immigrants.
- they do not want to integrate into American society,
they want their own culture
- there are too many immigrants
2. He sees integrative forces
- economic prosperity (Wohlstand,
Reichtum)
- practice of free political
institution
- the dominance of one language – the
English
- intermarriage (marriage between different
communities)
He sees a great future for the U.S. if
- the people must really be united
- the U.S. filter the emigrants ("no
dregs")
The non-ethnic minorities in Britain
Expel the English
1. Introduction (ll. 1-24)
- author says how important his subject
is
England will be destroyed if people do not
listen
- man of duty; "kindly", scholarly (gebildet); fond of
tigers and children under 3
- speaker legitimizes himself and introduces his
subject
Different aspects of the problem (ll. 25 bis
149)
- umemployment
- solution: expel the English, because they have been
here long enough
- historical background:
- the English are immigrants
themselves
- too high a rate of procreation
(Vermehrung)
- no regard for the original keltish
culture
- national characteristics of the
English
- lazy
- hooligans, vandals
- criminals
- greedy (habgierig)
- stiff and boring
- complaining about the weather
Solution to the problem (ll. 150 –
190)
- the English should return to
Normandy
- they can come back as visitors
- money ("grants)
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