Institutionalizing Our Demise: America vs. Multiculturalism written by Roger Kimball shares his views on what it really means to be an “American”, or live in America. Kimball discusses multiculturalism and what is America’s identity. Kimball also discusses how America received their identity, along with reasoning discussing if America should change their identity. The essay contains multiple statistical facts with dates validating Kimball’s argument, allowing Kimball’s essay to become creditable. Kimball opens the essay with the 9/11 attacks sowing the base line of patriotism during the time. There was a street referred to in the essay to show how many flags were flying on September 10, only one, a liquor store, the post office took it down prior leaving the liquor store. When the…show more content… Kimball goes over how in America people are supposed to leave their cultures behind and become one nation (the melting pot theory). When people enter, they are to leave their past behind and become an American citizen. Kimball uses a quote from Teddy Roosevelt explain how all the new types are to melt into one, making America a diverse, but unified at the same time. Kimball briefly states a counter argument stating America is nothing but immigrates, but refutes it saying the settlers are not immigrants and the people who arrived after the settlers are called the immigrants. Kimball states that there are too many immigrates in America, and uses the Mexicans as an example. “A professor of Chicano Studies at the university of New Mexico gleefully predicts that by 2080 parts of the South West United States and North Mexico will join to form a new county” (Kimball 4). Kimball uses this to show what can transpire of people don’t become American and bring their home culture here. There is a brief section covering the birthrates in other countries to see what it is like in Western Europe and compare it to
