Quote Originally Posted by sawleaf
Oh I know America is far from perfect and we are very fucked up in a lot of ways, but don't confuse the government with the people. I am just tired of people stereotyping Americans. There is more diversity in the US than in most other countries around the world.
I have to disagree.

Immigrants who arrive in the US absolutely HAVE to become good little americans, i.e. imitate how the white people live/eat/work/talk/etc... Eventually, everyone loses their heritage, the second generation often doesn't speak one word of their parents' mother tongue. I guess when you call it a melting pot, you mean it literally.

To me, this is the number 1 difference between Canada and the US. In Canada, people are welcome to keep their heritage. Heck, I know tons of people who moved to Canada from Italy in the 1960s and still get by using only a few words of french and english, speaking mostly italian. If you go to a big city, Montreal/Toronto/Vancouver, you are exposed to so many different cultures and languages. THAT is diversity.

That being said, I don't like it at all when people say all americans are this or that, because generalizations are never true. Most of my problems with the US are with the government, not the people, since it's the government that misleads people into believing what they're told to believe. Leave the people alone!