Is America A Melting Pot?

America is a melting pot in many different ways. We have an enormous influx of immigrants every year and we have people from every single ethnicity, background, race, religion, culture and nationality possible in the country. The real proof that we're a melting pot is that for the most part, the races and ethnicities mix together in everyday life without a problem. Sure there are the extreme cases of racist hate crimes and segregation, but those are not the norm. For the most part everyone has a chance at upward mobility and if they put in the work, they can be extremely successful. We even have an African American president. However, there are people who are trying to prevent America from being such a mixture of cultures and beliefs. Some people are extremely ethnocentric and think that America should only be full of W.A.S.Ps (While Anglo-Saxon Protestants). They are completely insane and think that immigrants are dirty thieves who are trying to abuse our system and find loopholes to better their lives. What they don't seem to realize is that they're ancestors were immigrants to who came into the country, ravaged the land, killed the natives and destroyed the landscape in order to construct their towns and cities. So what their ancestors did was far worse than what the immigrants of today are doing. So even though these people are trying to discourage immigration and impose laws and policies that make life harder for people who are here illegally or who aren't full citizens yet, America is still becoming the melting pot of the world. Their attempts to suppress the diversity in America are essentially useless and we will continue to grow in diversity as time progresses.