Is there a "War on Christmas?"

In general, I don't believe anyone is asking you to give up your own traditions or to dilute them with substitute traditions. No, what is being asked of you is to enjoy your traditions freely PROVIDED you allow others to do the same and restrain yourself from attempting to dominate others whose personal traditions conflict with your own.

You are wrong on the subject of diversity. Although it is true, in an individual it is difficult to be a master of anything if one hopes to be a "jack of all trades". Notice I used the word "difficult" instead of "impossible". Indeed, in human history there have been individuals who have demonstrated that a jack-of-all-trades can be a master of many of them - Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson, and so on. There are without a doubt individuals among us even now who demonstrate the same. You also may be discounting the fact that "jack of all trades" or, as others would call it "generalist" is a master skill in and of itself. Most are able to master a skill or two, however, there are still many among us who are able to learn many skills and integrate them masterfully to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

But this is regards to an individual. Within a group of individuals, if those individuals cooperate in their actions, the entire group benefits from the narrow-focused mastery of each of its members. Of course, the greater the size of the group, the greater the degree and scope of mastery within it. This is the brilliance of community. All can benefit from mastery in areas for which they have little knowledge, talent or skill in return for sharing their own mastery. In the individual, one can be a master generalist. In a community, one need not be a master generalist, however, one benefits from general mastery while a member of a group of cooperating individual masters.

All in all, diversity of experience, knowledge, understanding and expression in an individual, i.e., greatest possible breadth AND depth, gives that individual a great chance of surviving no matter what problems are adversities are presented to them. Indeed, it is human adaptability and improvisation that makes our species unique. The individual MUST be able to adapt with skill to many kinds of situations or they will perish. The utility of community, assuming all of its members are free and willing to cooperate with others who are also free to grow, develop and progress toward goals of their own choosing, is that through cooperation, individuals can survive in community who would not survive without it. Each member brings unique keys to unlocking the solutions to specific problems which others do not possess. To use those keys to aid not simply themselves but all with whom they consider kinship is to create an abstract organism with adaptability beyond that of its individual members.

The United States has never in its long history been one single culture but rather always a mix of cultures. You worry over the watering down of american culture because of the mixture of various specific cultures into one. Of course, this is what "american cutlure" has always been. I say to you that what you really worry about is the marginalization of one specific culture - yours - by allowing the cultures of others to have influence in what is supposed to be a guaranteed culture of non-interference, i.e., the idea that no one culture has all of the necessary questions and certainly not all of the answers. You do not know it and perhaps do not want to know it but, by allowing the influences of many cultures in addition to your own, you benefit from their experiences, their knowledge, their wisdom, their talents and skills, their expressions. If you adopt an attitude of isolation, of non-cooperation, an attitude of division rather than connection, you cut yourself off from the benefits of a larger community and thus reduce your survival chances. You as an individual cannot possibly master everything you need to master to survive many circumstances on you own. So too, no culture can survive well which cuts itself off in various ways from the benefits of other cultures. We humans love to create divisions on an Earth and in a nature that has no genuine division. All is connection save, perhaps, within the human intellect or lack thereof. Peaceful and voluntary coexistence and cooperation is the best path for us all.

We can survive together or die divided.

Isn't America a land of immigrants and diversity? What is the benefit of purified culture? Because the cost is personal liberty and fairness.