I know lots of people like that. I'm sure you do too. I think that's a limited, limiting way to live. Because it takes many, many overlapping layers of loyalty to make up an individual. Of course not.
Nobody wants to go back to the fifties.
Assimilation as we understand it today would mean giving up our strengthening, enriching sense of group identity. I do think, though I may be at odds with other voices on this issue, that we've lost that sense of balance between clan and commonweal that I believe is so important. There is so much stuff so much heavy, tangible stuff on the particularist side of the scale. Kids begin learning about what makes them different from each other in elementary school. Public policy reinforces the idea when it categorizes people by color or ethnicity.