The United States is a heterogeneous nation that consists of more than a hundred different ethnic groups. This country has a long record of immigration that goes back to the beginning of the seventeenth century and extends to the present time. People who emigrated from culturally diverse regions had to deal with a culture that initially did not embrace them. It was anticipated that these disparate cultural minorities would converge, or "melt," into a single, dominant society. However, this has not happened. After many years of huge immigrant waves, Greek-Americans, Irish-Americans, Asian-Americans, and so forth are among the subcultural groupings and ethnicities that continue to use hyphens in their names despite widespread intermarriage with mainstream society. This research investigates that any minority group living in a multicultural society like America needs to promote an identity that may give them a sense of unity and consolidation, just as a family does. A hyphenated identity can fulfill this need.