The melting pot survives.

Focuses on the controversy between nativists and multiculturalists over the subject of assimilating immigrants in the United States. Argument that large quantities of immigrants seclude themselves in ethnic enclaves; View from multiculturalists that the arrival of unassimilated immigrants is requiring the US to abandon the old notion of a melting pot; The example of Huntington Park, California; Citizenship and home ownership as symbols of attachment to life in the US.