You have led a sheltered life. In large metropolitan areas in America today most certainly the native language is spoken, flags are flown, and ethnic pride is displayed. In one city I lived in the late 70s the Lutheran Church finally ended the services in German, and the Romanian services stopped in their church in the native tongue. I see parades for Irish, Puerto Rican, Polish, Lithuanian, and Mexican in the Chicago area, with native speaking radio and tv. I get the Rockford Illinois station and their Fox affiliate is running an all Spanish newscast at 4:30 each day. We are a diverse and strong nation of immigrants, and although the xenophobic fear of the newest immigrants has always existed in America, we have only become stronger.