Kallen: Democracy versus the Melting Pot

AMERICA - a unison - melting pot (Anglo-Saxon tradition)

or

- a harmony - plurality

The government has to create conditions, where every cultural group has a chance to live its life.

Ancestors determine our way of living and how we search happiness. We develop towards a rational society.

He discribes an ideal society, where every nation is able to live peacefully.

Mayo-Smith

He sees problem swith the integration of immigrants.

- they do not want to integrate into American society, they want their own culture

- there are too many immigrants

He sees integrative forces

economic prosperity (Wohlstand, Reichtum)

practice of free political institution

the dominance of one language - the English

intermarriage (marriage between different communities)

He sees a great future for the U.S. if

- the people must really be united

- the U.S. filter the emigrants ('no dregs')

The non-ethnic minorities in Britain

Expel the English

Introduction (ll. 1-24)

- author says how important his subject is

England will be destroyed if people do not listen

- man of duty; 'kindly', scholarly (gebildet); fond of tigers and children under 3

- speaker legitimizes himself and introduces his subject

Different aspects of the problem (ll. 25 bis 149)

- umemployment

- solution: expel the English, because they have been here long enough

- historical background:

- the English are immigrants themselves

- too high a rate of procreation (Vermehrung)

- no regard for the original keltish culture

- national characteristics of the English

- lazy

- hooligans, vandals

- criminals

- greedy (habgierig)

- stiff and boring

- complaining about the weather

Solution to the problem (ll. 150 - 190)

- the English should return to Normandy

- they can come back as visitors

- money ('grants)