There are two kinds of people – Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek.  — My Big Fat Greek Wedding

We are a nation of proud immigrants and their descendants.  Each wave of new Americans brings with it people who love their home country, but love their new home as well.  They add their skills, their values, and their strength to the melange that is “American”.  We are founded on British and French Enlightenment values, but that steel has been tempered with the best that the rest of the world has to offer.  We lose out when we insist that immigrants forget their origins, but they lose out when they refuse to take on what our country has to offer them.