Marco Rubio

Certain types of Anglo-derived culture that comes from our history.

Like what?

Let me think about this.

You know, Senator, I would say if you were to look at the book by one of your former Senate colleagues, Born Fighting, about the sort of Scotch-Irish military culture and certain pride that went with that, that would be one example.

Obviously, you could have sub-elements of that culture.

You could have Italians.

You could have Irish.

And those are in many ways more distinct.

I would say that the white church is very different than the black church in terms of its tone and style on average.

Food ways could often be different.

And those are being erased.

Music could be different.

Well, if you look at the Super Bowl halftime show, which was not in English this year.

I am concerned with the majority common American culture that we had for some time that through particularly mass immigration I think has become much more balkanized and I think that weakens us and again I'm not running away from that comment I'm not apologizing for it.

The year that my country was founded, Lorenzo and Catalina Giraldi lived in Casao Monferrato in the kingdom of Piedmont, Sardinia.

And Jose and Manuela Reyna lived in Sevilla, Spain.

I don't know what, if anything, they knew about the 13 colonies which had gained their independence from the British Empire.

But here's what I'm certain of.

They could have never imagined that 250 years later,

One of their direct descendants would be back here today on this continent as the chief diplomat of that infant nation.