Melting Pot and Salad Bowl
The United States of America was essentially founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through solidarity of human kind. It has been the land of immigrants and still is. The melting pot and salad bowl, are two metahors often used to describe how the different cultures blend together.?
The term “melting pot” was created by Israel Zangwill in his famous play with the same name in 1908. It refers to the many different races from different nations that came to America and then melted down to form the Americans. The ''Melting pot'' can also be referred to as assimilation, multiculturalism and segregation. Multiculturalism referring to several cultures that exist in one place and relate to each other. Whereas assimilation is when the minority are expected to forget their culture in order to emerge into another. Through this segregation might develop.
The salad bowl concept, however this is more open to cultural differences. Multiculturalism is a term often used to describe this way of thinking. Minorities accept and practice their own values and habits as well as adopting the common or dominant values of the majority. For instance, a Chinese is presented as an American Chinese. In this case each race represented an ingredient and all the races together in one country are what were referred to as the salad bowl.
Living in a foreign country has it's negatives and positives aspects. This applies to me as a person because am a Ugandan living in Norway as well. It has been two years now since I came, and I have experienced and learnt a lot. Some of the good things that have happened to me; are the people I have met. It's always disappointing to travel to a country and be treated in a bad way, however coming to Norway was the opposite, and I really felt at home. For example I had to learn the language and the school system. The teachers gave me the motivation to learn a new language and the school curriculum was good. Even if I were sick, I
The term “melting pot” was created by Israel Zangwill in his famous play with the same name in 1908. It refers to the many different races from different nations that came to America and then melted down to form the Americans. The ''Melting pot'' can also be referred to as assimilation, multiculturalism and segregation. Multiculturalism referring to several cultures that exist in one place and relate to each other. Whereas assimilation is when the minority are expected to forget their culture in order to emerge into another. Through this segregation might develop.
The salad bowl concept, however this is more open to cultural differences. Multiculturalism is a term often used to describe this way of thinking. Minorities accept and practice their own values and habits as well as adopting the common or dominant values of the majority. For instance, a Chinese is presented as an American Chinese. In this case each race represented an ingredient and all the races together in one country are what were referred to as the salad bowl.
Living in a foreign country has it's negatives and positives aspects. This applies to me as a person because am a Ugandan living in Norway as well. It has been two years now since I came, and I have experienced and learnt a lot. Some of the good things that have happened to me; are the people I have met. It's always disappointing to travel to a country and be treated in a bad way, however coming to Norway was the opposite, and I really felt at home. For example I had to learn the language and the school system. The teachers gave me the motivation to learn a new language and the school curriculum was good. Even if I were sick, I