The second example relates to the immigrants in the "melting pot" of the United States where there was a
- process of Americanization by which ethnic groups of every origin submerged the characteristics of these origins, were assimilated into the mainstream of American society, and reappeared after a generation or so as more or less homogenous Americans . . . (Thus] the evident rewards that full participation in American life offered, have been the causes of the apparently rapid 'de- ethnicizing' of immigrants. (1977, p. 261).