How many of the English and Irish among us are only a generation or less removed from feuding in the Old Country?  How many French and Germans?  How many Serbs and Croats?  How many Tutsi and Hutu?  Yet, when fully Americanized, these tribal or cultural designations will become secondary to the adopted culture of America.  

These days many are taking great care in advertising to Americans that America is meant to be multicultural and that "our diversity is our strength."  Nothing could be farther from the truth and our national motto..."out of many one" belies this notion.  We are not strong because we are different, we are strong because the American experiment demands that we look beyond our differences.