Leo123
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I didn't see the SB commercials. But in general, I have to ask how terms such as "multiculturalism" and "American culture" are to be defined. The U.S. has been multicultural since it's inception. Forgetting the history of European interaction with Native Americans for a moment, the English and Dutch settled the northeast. Africans were brought here before the Revolution. The area of the Louisiana purchase was bought from France, with both white and African-descended peoples living on it. A large chunk of U.S. land originally belonged to Mexico. Alaska was purchased from Russia. Then people started arriving from a multitude of countries. Then Hawaii in the Pacific, with its distinct culture, was added.
The term "multicultural" is only a description of what "American culture" is and always has been: a blend, an amalgam.
I can imagine that the SB commercials merely contained depictions of slices of American life.
Yes, a BLEND means folks ASSIMILATED and are all Americans in the American culture which includes many different ethnic traditions. We are NOT old Hawaii, French, Italian, or any other culture. Natives were not Americans and had no contiguous country. They were tribal and fought with each other and held slaves. We are NOT Mexican just because Mexico USED to own part of our geography. Alaska is NOT Russia. Do you understand now?