Re:Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation
by ben_w on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @11:54AM
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> Is America enough of a "melting pot" that we can withstand that sort of outsized foreign influence within our borders?
Depends.
If your idea of America consists of just the pre-colonial native groups, Navajo etc., then America was already gone a century and a half ago.
But the America of 1925 had exactly the same arguments about Italians, and of 1845 about the Irish, in that the local born were complaining a lot and didn't trust the newcomers.
The melting pot has been melting for a long time now; you're a big endless stew of a country. (Except for the "real" natives, if there is such a thing).
Depends.
If your idea of America consists of just the pre-colonial native groups, Navajo etc., then America was already gone a century and a half ago.
But the America of 1925 had exactly the same arguments about Italians, and of 1845 about the Irish, in that the local born were complaining a lot and didn't trust the newcomers.
The melting pot has been melting for a long time now; you're a big endless stew of a country. (Except for the "real" natives, if there is such a thing).