text: how is the inside life in the amarican family?   :} america is a truly diversified country. the family of the 1950's was probably the last of the melting pot era whem there was something of a norm. when we forsook the idea of one nation, one people, and took on the idea of  diversity (each people retaining their own heritage), we lost that standard. now almost anything can be found. i fear we may have seen the seeds of disintegration.