Not quite. While US may be an ethnic melting pot, it is steeped in WASPy culture (apologies for the racial term). Europe while bland food-wise is far more div

Not quite. While US may be an ethnic melting pot, it is steeped in WASPy culture (apologies for the racial term). Europe while bland food-wise is far more diverse (linguistically atleast), so there is more to "preserve". Russia seems to remember the days of Eastern Orthodox vs the Vatican (now repeated by Putin et.al). India is, diverse yes, but those who make it out are mostly the outputs of a colonial system which wanted to replicate WASPs. Kind of the same thing in Africa. China is kind of asserting its own culture, but Mao's men didn't leave much tradition behind to stand on. The schizophrenia is now quite visible; but then it's not clear if it would have been better if Chiang Kai Shek held on to power. Japan is slightly bit better, but the tradition seems to have become frozen, and quite irrelevant. I'm not sure if it was more fluid before Meiji. Perhaps, the reason why the Anglo-American world is so fond of diverse peoples is its task - for the better or worse - of synthesizing a universal culture.