Trans-national America Reflection Paper

The quote that I picked from the article "Trans-national America" by Randolph S. Bourne is: "The foreign cultures have not been melted down or run together, made into some homogeneous Americanism, but have remained distinct but cooperating to the greater glory and benefit not only of themselves but of all the native 'Americanism' around them".  The reason why I picked this quote is because it relates to the controversial ideology of the "melting pot" in America.
To my understanding, I believe that by this quote, the author is trying to say that America is failing to maintain its culture because it has become a country of a mixture of cultures and that the mixture is not homogeneous.   Bourne points out that we do not want a mixture where cultures do not combine and merge together and that America's destiny is to be a mixture of cultures or a multicultural demographic country where there is not only the existence of an "American culture".  Also, that all ethnic groups have helped the American culture to be a society.  An example that supports the idea that America is a mixture of cultures is by looking at the different ethnic enclaves in New York City, where neighborhoods are dominated by one ethnicity.  We see ethnic enclaves such as,Chinatown in Manhattan and Little Italy in Manhattan.
I agree with what the author is trying to said.  If we would be able to see a homogeneous mixture we can see that its components are evenly distributed throughout the mixture and that the whole mixture shares the same characteristics, however, that is not the case of the composition of the American society with all the different races and ethnic groups.  This article was written by Randolph S. Bourne during WWI and I think that the reason that the "melting pot" theory became controversial is because during this time millions of immigrants mostly from Europe were admitted to the United States.  Because this unexplained emigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, the United States started to become more diverse.  So the idea of the "melting pot" theory was challenged by Bourne because America started to become a multicultural society.  I think that America would not be America without all these different ethnic groups that have helped it socioeconomically. Somehow the United States has started to realize that immigrants from all these ethnic groups need to be integrated in society and provided with tools so they can assimilate the American culture.   As for the concept of the melting pot I do not see America as having people from different cultures fusing together, instead, I see a society where people from different backgrounds add unique contributions to it and being able to maintain their language, religion, traditions, food, etc.  One way by which immigrants have helped America in economic terms is by being entrepreneurs and opening businesses in the United States.