“Perhaps the most curious aspect of the shift away from the melting pot in the United States has been the creation of new ethnic categories: Latinx and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). These categories do nothing to respect the unique backgrounds of the individuals they include or even give these individuals something new they can take pride in.

Ironically, while multiculturalists have rejected the traditional melting pot because people cannot or should not “melt,” they have simply replaced it with a set of new melting pots. These new melting pots don’t just melt people; they trivialize their unique, diverse origins, pigeonholing them into factitious categories that may be useful to political elites, but which reduce their individual identities to a range of skin tones.”