America is a grand experiment, asking the question as to whether people from different cultures, nationalities, creeds, and whatnot can live together and to eventually coalesce as one people. While it is true, that America is a country that has not embraced all peoples historically as equal members, it has as a country and as a people made great strides in doing so. In point of fact, upon its founding as a nation, virtually all of the people of power and influence in America, such as those that signed the Declaration of Independence, or its Constitution, were white, Protestant, male, and either quite wealthy or quite influential. That was the way it was back then, but the country as a whole, has made enormous strides in treating all those that are American citizens by virtue of birth, or by adoption, as equally entitled to its benefits, and its rule of law. While America, has fallen short of meeting these ideals, again and again, it has also, inexorably, relentlessly, made progress, step by step, so that we have come ever closer to dealing with others based upon their merit, their character, and their achievements, rather than by making snap judgments on them simply based on the color of their skin, or other superficial items.
It is well said, that often two heads are better than one, because each person can work off the skill-set and wisdom of the other, to ultimately achieve an end result that will be far richer than one person, rowing alone. America made the choice, years ago, that it would help to build the foundations and roadways necessary so that all Americans would be afforded the opportunity to get ahead. In America, it is acknowledged that we are all created equally by God, and while that does not mean that we all have equal abilities, or equal opportunities, it does mean that we all are equally entitled to reap the benefits of what we have sowed.
The Christian religion teaches us that we are to "love thy neighbor as thy self", and further that our neighbor is any and all peoples such as: the poor, the downtrodden, the abused, and the oppressed, because God is no respecter of persons as He loves all as his own. In this world, there are so many sorts of cultures, along with all sorts of people of different sizes, shapes, beliefs, and colors, but those differences which seem so rich in variety, are in actuality merely different forms on display of how God has created a rainbow coalition of humanity on this planet.
God loves to test us, as is seen so vividly in this great American experiment, testing this very nation, as to whether it will indeed live up to its creed, that "all men are created equal", and further whether it indeed believes in its Statue of Liberty proclamation as to being that safe harbor for refugees "yearning to be free". America is that great melting pot, because Americans have made it so, this struggle has cost mankind much in blood, sweat, and tears, but there is nothing in this world that is really worth anything of value, if we are not willing to sacrifice ourselves to it.