Memo to Tincy: America is "A Melting Pot"

Roughly a minute into this video that I talked about in a post last month, "Tincy Miller: On Camera & Unscripted," I noticed that Mrs. Miller voiced disapproval over teaching world cultures.  The question to be fair asked if she was for world cultures being taught specifically in charter schools.

She said that American culture is superior over other cultures by mentioning the idea of American Exceptionalism repeatedly in the video.  There is no doubt our country is unique, however my disagreement with you, Tincy, is this:  America is the world's "melting pot."  American culture is really a mixture of world cultures and the modern day epicenter of world history. 

The three most obvious reasons why America is the world's "melting pot." 

1)  Our country started out as 13 British colonies that banded together and declared independence from King George III and the British Parliament in 1776.   Many our laws and traditions thus come from Great Britain and Ireland.

2)  Our country took over lands originally colonized by other nations such as purchasing Louisiana from the French in 1803, getting Florida from the Spanish in 1819, and fighting wars with Mexico to secure much of the American West in the 1840s.  Alaska was bought as a Russian territory after the Civil War.  Before that, many dozens of Native American tribes dotted the American landscape.

3)  The headquarters of the United Nations is right here in America, in New York City!  Leaders worldwide come at least to openly and peacefully express their concerns.  (Of course this is considered international territory.) 

America history was part of world history from day one.  America continues to be part of a larger story- the history of human civilization. To suggest that America has today a wholly self-contained culture from day one does Texas schoolchildren an enormous injustice!