Many people like to say that the United States is not a melting pot of cultures anymore, rather it is a salad bowl. Sowell makes this claim in his article "Diversity's Downside." He further goes on to say that diversity is a bad thing. I strongly disagree with Mr. Sowell's claims on multiculturalism, that broad multiculturalism is bad. Diversity is what holds us together, it produces a certain wonder and respect for other people. Imagine a world with only one culture; for example imagine a world all like the US, no Far East to satisfy our fantasies and curiosities. It would indeed be a dismal and grim world if we were all like, talked the same way, only one language
             In his article, Sowell states that "... until recent times, it was understood by all that they came here to become Americans – not to remain foreign. By the second generation, most were speaking English, and by the third generation they were speaking only English." This is not necessarily true, in the beginning days of the United States of America, the people who emigrated here slowly became Americans, but they still had their foreign identities. Some immigrants from certain countries have kept their traditions and culture to this day and it has not caused a problem.
             Furthermore, Sowell claims that the reasons of civil unrest in culturally diverse situations are group identity and group preferences. " Above all they want group identity and group preferences and quotas. In short, they want all the things that have brought on the kinds of disasters from which India and other such diverse countries have suffered so grievously." This is not true, because even though sure there are cultural differences, the thing that causes problems is pride. When pride says that one group is better than another, the group that is put down resorts to violence to prove that they are indeed better. It is hubris that causes racial and cultural tension. For example the KKK was creat...