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Show ware that the Know Nothings or the American Protects e USA: The j Association or the Immigration Restriction League did exist, or that the Ku Klux . I whose KLn, of hatred "aliens" didn't stop at skm 8 . w-color, numbered million members m the 1920s, or that signs really did say "Irish need not apply" or that Jews really couldn't join the country club When former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visited Lyndon Johnson in Texas, the then Vice President spun him a yarn about two ranch hands of the area, stereotype American cowpokes in boots and Stetsons, chatting m front of the general store and partaiwi HTtitewa ing with this exchange: "Auf Wiedersehen, Fritz. noted, which George Wallace "A guten Tag, Hans." detected early on, and which 19th Century the campaign of The characters typfied the 1972. with its appeal to the Teutonic descendants of a "middle American, sought to an group who immigrated to Cenmobilize; awakening tral Texas in the 19th century, among ethnic groups that with the dream, originally, not their notions of the way things of becoming Americanized but ought to be were as good as of some day forming a soveranybody elses and that they eign German principality and did not have to surrender their values or style of life to splitting off. Over the years they have assert them. clung as tenaciously to their Politicians, of course, have culture and folkways as have not exactly been unaware of communities of Slovenes in ethnic differences over the Poles in ConnCleveland, ecticut, Hungarians in Indiana, Dutch in Pennsylvania, Swedes in Minnesota, Basques in Nevada, Armenians in New York, you name it. There is no evidence that any of these groups has considered itself less patriotic for its reverence of its unique heritage, although many have been suspected of being so. Retain More ' Ethnic Melting Pot? IPs Still The Great American Dream Continued From Page decade from 1904 to 1914 one out of every fo'ir immigrants from southern and eastern Europe went back home. Facts Ignored Such facts have been generally ignored by historians and sociologists who are now having a field day studying American ethnicity," a word that has come into vogue in the 70s much as "ecology" arrived in the 60s to identify something that had been lurking around all along waiting to be discovered. "Ethnicity in American hishas remained toriography something of a family scandal, to be kept a dark secret or explained avay, says Rudolph J. Vecoli, history professor at the University of Minnesota and director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Because of their expectations that assimilation was to be swift and irresistible, historians and social scientists have looked for change rather than continuity, acculturation rather than cultural mainte- in; wo r ' i Nixon-Agne- "nr" V r J? -- A 26, 1973 X 1 L lS,i; A i The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August j dri ' It . 4 llpitiff : ' r tl y - V i I jr Alexandra Klkou, an American of Greek origin, poses with her native-bor- n grandson. Her long voyage of Immigration didnt end on New York's wsi side. She and others still cling tenaciously to their cultures. M!' T 'v, 'N ' 'W i4r 1 X years; any good ward heeler knows the value of a balanced ticket or a balanced school board, for that matter. There Is little doubt ethnic idiosjnerasies exist; even caricatures harbor an element of truth, ft hat upsets the old melting pot is the fact that, as director Andrew M. Greeley of the Univesity of Chicagos Opinion Research Center has found, Americans still retain ethnic differences evert after three generations and a college education. -- ' ''.s'. , f V A - ft . ' A 7' t i, . i This Taos Indian elder from New Mexico Is a member of the most deprived minority in the land. Indians are a minority whose culture is entirely their own and who have always stoutly fought against assimilation. Even after they leave home those descendants offer, retain a more than nostalgic attachment to their distinctive communities sanctuanes, of sorts, where tastes and smells and sounds are iamibar and laughte. easy. The surprise then is not that ethnics, as they have come to be ungramatically called, are still unmelted in 1973. The surprise is that all of a sudden everybody wants to be one. What has happened that so many are now remembering openly what all their lives they had been told to forget: their own origins? The black movement led the way. Not the "We Shall Overcome effort to climb into the melting pot but the "Black is Beautiful effort to climb out. nance. Since ethnicity was thought to be evanescent it worth was not considered Dismay Expressed Sipificantly, during the earlier phase of the movement studying. the late Rev. Martin Luther Americas Wish King Jr. once expressed disThus did Americas wish for may at why oui red brothers a melting pot become father 'have not joined us in this crusade, since American Into the thought. most Todays scholars, looking to dians were clearly the land the in minority deprived ethnic explain why organizations, neighborhoods, commun- ities and traditions have remained strong despite all the pressures to fade away, point to a long history of rejection, not always subtle, in a long struggle for acceptance, not always peaceful. Beginning with their arrival, when they read the Statue of Libertys poetic inscription saluting them as "wretched refuse" and endured Ellis Islands leper-lik- e quarantine, down to the immigration laws which persisted untd the Johnson administration, quota laws based ci the report of a government commission specifically authorized to determine "whether there may not be certain races that are inferior to other races . . . whether some may be better fitted for American citizenship than newcomers discovothers, ered hat not everything in their adopted country was calculated to make them feel exactly at home. Didnt End of alienation sense The and its corollary sense of sedid curity among one's own not end with the first generation. It isnt likely that any American would grow up una It wasn't until the black movement entered its separatthe ist stage that Indians one American minority whose culture is entirely its own, with no traces of European or Oriental Influences, and who had stoutly resisted assimilation since the day the Mayanchor flower drupped could feel reasonably comfort- able with a black ally. Inmans have believed all along, as former Navajo chief judge Murray Lincoln once expressed it: "Whenever our two cultures collide, the white man must understand that he has something to receive as well as to give. Society Brainwashed "The whole of American society has been brainwashed into believing that if it understood blacks it could automatically understand every other says Sioux leader group, Vine Deloria. 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