What we emphatically do not want is that these distinctive qualities should be washed out into a tasteless, colorless fluid of uniformity. Already we have far too much of this insipidity, -- masses of people who are cultural half- breeds, neither assimilated Anglo-Saxons nor nationals of another culture. Each national colony in this country seems to retain in its foreign press, its vernacular literature, its schools, its intellectual and patriotic leaders, a central cultural nucleus. From this nucleus the colony extends out by imperceptible gradations to a fringe where national characteristics are all but lost. Our cities are filled with these half- breeds who retain their foreign names but have lost the foreign savor. This does not mean that they have actually been changed into New Englanders or MiddleWesterners. It does not mean that they have been really Americanized. It means that, letting slip from them whatever native culture they had, they have substituted for it only the most rudimentary American -- the American culture of the cheap newspaper, the 'movies,' the popular song, the ubiquitous automobile. The unthinking who survey this class call them assimilated, Americanized. The great American public school has done its work. With these people our institutions are safe. We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization. The same moulders of opinion whose ideal is to melt the different races into Anglo-Saxon gold hail this poor product as the satisfying result of their alchemy.



No matter the differences an immigrant entails, the qualities that separates them should not be over shadowed or broken down into basic formality of others. With people from so many different places and different beliefs, its hard to maintain a cultural identity in a country where national colonies has been established. These colonies has greatly impacted influence over immigrants, by preserving and and reiterating their language, schools, leaders and religion as superior to other beliefs.  While this does not necessarily mean that an immigrant fully adapts or dismisses their own culture for to be considered apart of Europe, but  it becomes easier to lose self identity in acceptance to the  "American culture". As much as this seems to devastate the people, it has become adopted and accepted as the Anglo-Saxon affect and is the result of Americanization.