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We celebrate some of his traditions in our home but we don't expect for everyone else to do the same
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That's fair, but it doesn't mesh with what you said above:
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As for what other cultures do in their country is fine. It has nothing to do with our culture here
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It seems like you want people in America to abide by a certain culture. Is this a fair assessment?
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Yes, we are a melting pot, but we are also an American culture
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What is an American culture? Who gets to decide? Isn't whatever we each practice the de facto "American" culture because we each are in fact individual Americans?
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My children have been privileged to enjoy their fathers traditions and yet hold on to their American values and traditions.
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What are these "American values" you speak of? Are these values exclusive to Americans, and that no other countries/cultures share these same values?
If so, what makes Americans so different from other people that we have a different set of values that must be embraced so that we don't lose these values?
Also, are all American traditions necessarily good traditions?