Abstract:<p>Immigration to the United States is
certainly not a new phenomenon, and it is therefore natural for immigration,
culture and identity to be given due attention by the public and policy makers.
However, current discussion of immigration, legal and illegal, and the
philosophical underpinnings is ‘lost in translation’, not necessarily on
ideological lines, but on political orientation. In this paper we reexamine the
philosophical underpinnings of the melting pot versus multiculturalism as
antecedents and… Show more
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