``I'm NOT melting! I'm NOT melting!''

The so-called ``melting pot'' is not an inevitable fate for America's immigrant families, this report indicates.

With the rise in immigration to the US in the 1990's, it says, people from Asia and Spanish-speaking nations had a larger pool of candidates for marriage within their traditional categories. And so, for the first time in decades, intermarriage across the widely-used race and ethnic boundaries has been declining.