The Right Wing likes to whine about the "Loss of American Culture".

of the presidency, the Dept. of Justice, the Congress, the intelligence community, the military, the Diplomatic Corps, and they're complaining?

Which of these is "the real New York" or the Real America?

I lived for years in Elizabeth, NJ, within walking distance of Newark's Ironbound, second stop for immigrants for 200 years. Now it's all South American, and there's a party every night and the food is fantastic.

There are old Jewish neighborhoods in Queens that are now Asian, mainly Korean.

Need I go on? America is an amalgam of hundreds of cultures that moved here over the years and is the better for it.

the various colonies were largely settled by very different people; New England Puritans were different from Pennsylvania Quakers who were different from Maryland Catholics etc.

Unfortunately the emergent cultural theme I recognize in our nation is that being rich is more important than anything else...more than either ethics or conscience.

I live in a Midwest city, not that big, but we had Ethiopian restaurants (too spicy for me!) and Indian restaurants, and Japanese restaurants, and Irish pubs...


That's America. The best of everything. They're all American.

people from all over the world..My nephrologist, my pulmonologist...mid east.

Worked at Wichita Airbus with a Romanian, a Russian, and many Asians and

Brits...all liked the state, but very quietly question the politics...

And that has been around, in the seat of power, for a long time... Despite its lack of a legitimate democratic (small d) majority.

There's no point taking these RW people literally. That are not that serious, or honest.

Education is just "indoctrination" to them. They want to do away with the National Endowment for the Arts. They scorn the "elite" that funds symphonies and art exhibits. They don't even like culture.