> The notion that you can move around people as if they had no ancestry or culture, and immediately adapt them to any other place seems wrong though. I don't t

> The notion that you can move around people as if they had no ancestry or culture, and immediately adapt them to any other place seems wrong though. I don't think anyone serious has ever believed that. The whole US idea of a "melting pot" is basically an overt acceptance of the fact that that isn't what happens.