I read this on Bighollywood.com, and PT Bull a commenter called it a Multicultural Utopia. Its written by a definite liberal named MovieBob, and he's writing about his grandchildren, not his children because he says the transition is going to be rough as America becomes an hourglass economically intead of a peach.
I doubt he's right. I certainly hope he's not. But its an interesting prediction...
----"I hope you are wrong in your negative prediction, but financially, I am betting on america going down the tubes. Hope I am wrong too."
Depends on what you mean when you say "America" when it comes to tubes.
If you mean "America" the nation - no, that's going to be just fine. We're not going to get blown off the map by some enemy nation, we're not going to be invaded and conquered, we're not going to lose the flag, the bill of rights, the monuments, the what-have-you.
Now, if we're talking about "America as we know it" i.e. the abstract "feel" of what America is or "means?" Up-by-your-bootstraps, cabin-in-the-woods, frontiersman, family-centric, rural-blue-collar-working-class-as-heroic-ideal, nominally-Christian, predominantly-white, reflexively-patriarchal, that whole thing? Yeah... that's toast. Has been for awhile now. It happens. Cultures change - "evolve," if you like.
My grandchildren will probably speak two or three languages just as a matter of "how it works now," and one of them will probably be Mandarin - especially if their successful in business. They will probably not work in a factory or on a farm, not because those things aren't nice but because those things aren't "here" anymore. They'll probably live and work on either or both coasts, not in the middle, and for purposes of business they will probably have secondary citizenship in at least one other nation. They will probably not "marry" but rather have multiple "official" long-term-but-finite relationships throughout their lives, and will likely have children much later than I did. Vestiges of Christianity (and Islam, while we're at it) will be around, but will have about as much effect on their day-to-day lives as the lingering notions of Athena or Thor have upon mine (Judaism, however, will be alive and kicking - that much you can always bet on.)
Strange future? To me, maybe. But then imagine what a man of 1899 would think of OURS. America will be just fine, in other words ;) ----