Trans-national America

What shall we do with our America? How are we likely to get the more creative America--by confining our imaginations to the ideal of the melting-pot or broadening them to some such cosmopolitan conception as I have been vaguely sketching? --Randolph Bourne in Trans-national America 1916 Trans-national America was published in 1916 in The Atlantic Monthly by Randolph Bourne. While World War I was raging in Europe native-born Americans became increasingly suspicious of the pockets of immigrant culture thriving among them. In his article Trans-national America Bourne disagreed with these attitudes and stated that the United States should accommodate immigrant cultures into a cosmopolitan America instead of forcing immigrants to assimilate to the dominant Anglo-Saxon-based culture. He called for a new trans-national America.Bournes positions in Trans-national America are as thought-provoking and relevant as ever for students of history political scientists and others interested in the current discussion about immigration in America.