Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation

[Regina]

I think we can achieve color/ ethnic/ gender/ sexual orientation blindness whi!le respecting our historical / cultural / sexual/ uniqueness which adds flavor to the soup in the melting pot. I think we can eat our cake and hold on to it too. It is a worthy goal.

It depends how it is done.

There is a difference between a "melting pot" and "multiculturalism", and I really would say those are opposites of eachother. A melting pot is where everyone just throws in their little bit and contributes to the greater culture, while multiculturalism is preserving segregated tribes on grounds of culture or race.
 
Multiculturalism does not work, and contemporary Europe is a prime example of that. Here we've tried to preserve minority immigrant cultures and ended up with ghettoised communities (of Muslims especially) who often hold views and attitudes at stark contrast with the wider population, and it creates tension and even conflict sometimes. It's not sustainable as a long-term policy to expect radically different cultures to just peacefully co-exist, right next to eachother on a small plot of land.

I certainly don't think a physical/genetic melting pot should be a policy, the government has no right to interfere with marriage and breeding to where we either force miscegenation or, opposite extreme, ban it. True integration to me is about finding and promoting common values, and holding everyone to the exact same standards of behaviour under the common law.