The Great American Novel

[Terrance]

Dedalus wrote: Even tho we like to think we are free and
fair and
> melting-potted and all that good stuff, we cannot agree on a unified
> sense of Identity BECAUSE we are free and fair and melting-potted and
> all that good stuff. 


Maybe our melting days are over, look, all the books you
listed as melting pot great may not be what's great about
the great american non-melting pot. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm