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Excerpt from America and Britain, the Story of the Relations, Between Two Peoples
B Iassimilated or is being assimilated to a type as uniform as that of any other people.
But the fact that our people are of mixed origin does not mean that our nation is a conglomerate or that our Civilization culture is a compromise between different 1101001119191 contributing elements. Our language, for instance, is not a medley of English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Syrian, and the like. It is English, the other languages being represented at most by a few scattering words which rapidly become anglicized beyond recognition. And the same is true of all that is essential in our political and social institutions. The influence of the French, Spanish, and Dutch can be traced in our laws and customs, but only locally and in matters of detail, much as in our speech. Even where their language and institutions have a certain independent existence, as in Louisiana and New Mex ico, they are clearly losing ground. Those who speak French or Spanish speak English also, or are learning to do so. Only the British speech and British institu tions have been able to persist, to enlarge their terri tory, and to absorb or suppress competing systems. It is therefore perfectly correct to say that our country and, our civilization are of British origin, the non-british elements of our population hav ing failed to maintain their earlier type and allowed themselves to be assimilated to a type essentially British.
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