It takes more than a language to unify a nation

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/24/2007 03:32 PM, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>      No system is perfect, but the vision of the U.S. as a melting
> pot worked well for our grandparents and greatgrandparents, and it
> might not be so bad for the present either.

I wonder whether historians of that period would agree.

Joel

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