Have you ever heard that America is a melting pot or a salad bowl? The metaphor for the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading for America. A more accurate metaphor would be a salad bowl‚ for the salad bowl can be very different from the melting pot because of all its ingredients can make it distinguished from the melting pot. Even today Americans are calling America a salad bowl instead of a melting pot. Whereas it once was a melting pot but soon changed. There have been many questions
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The Khmer Rouge‚ a horrifying experience for the people who were there during those times. Some people were lucky to escape into Thailand but‚ the people who were not lucky were in hell. Pol Pot‚ the leader of the Khmer Rouge over threw the king of Cambodia and stated that “1975 was year zero for his country‚ resetting the culture of Cambodian people and wiping away old traditions and history so that revolutionaries could rebuild the nation.” “Banks‚ churches‚ schools‚ newspapers‚ radio‚ television
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Melting Pot or Mosaic‚ which one? Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements‚ such as language‚ religion‚ race and ethnicity‚ clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others‚ we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving‚ ever changing civilization‚ which includes several different groups people. For immigrants‚ America is a land of opportunity; for others
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The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse society‚ I have learned new concepts of living‚ new ways to think‚ and have been introduced to a variety of foods that I have enjoyed. It seems in the end many of the groups that are so different have a common interest which
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Response Paper 2: The “Melting Pot” Metaphor and Popular Culture People commonly describe America as a “melting pot” because it consists of a variety of cultures that all mesh together to form a cohesive‚ united whole. However‚ the analogy can prove to be problematic and inaccurate to describe American society when looking at the big picture. The problem with comparing American culture to a melting pot is that “it has never adequately captured the diverse experiences of exclusion and adjustment
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“The USA was not a ‘melting pot’ but a ‘mosaic’ of different cultures in the period 1890-1910’ Do you agree? According to some historians‚ the USA in 1890 had become a ‘melting pot’ of different cultures‚ meaning that the people who had immigrated to America had left their old traditions behind to start a new country free from outdated laws; this idea was also linked to American Exceptionalism as America was ‘Exceptional’ for these reasons. Many historians argue against this idea as there is plenty
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Although this nation has long been called a “melting pot”‚ one would not have to look too deep into that analogy to see that it may not be the best way to describe the combination of people from various parts of the world that have chosen to live here in the United States. If various components were to be added and melted down into a pot of sorts‚ it would be reasonable to deduce that the result would leave an amalgamated form of matter of which the various components that construct it would now
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Mason Agate 5.04 Nazi Holocaust vs. Pol Pot in Cambodia Genocide is the deliberate killing of large groups of people‚ typically of specific ethnic groups or a nation. Throughout history there has been numerous instances of genocide. Two major instances of genocide were the Nazi Holocaust and the Pol Pot in Cambodia. Although both of these genocide events are similar‚ they have quite a few historical differences. One of the most famous genocide events is the Nazi Holocaust. This event took
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called a melting pot; however‚ I would argue that America should no longer be called a melting pot. The term melting pot suggests that immigrants should assimilate into American culture. Instead‚ America should be looked upon as a salad bowl society or a mosaic work of art allowing our newcomers to bring their racial and ethnic differences to the country. This allows our newcomers to “retain their own national characteristics while integrating into a new society” (“Melting Pot America”). We‚ as
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America: Melting Pot vs. Salad Bowl Multiculturalism is also known as ethnic diversity relating to communities containing multiple cultures. The term is used in two different broad ways‚ descriptively and normatively. By using the descriptive term‚ we usually refer to the simple fact of cultural diversity. This can be applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place and sometimes at the organizational level such as schools‚ neighborhoods or nations. The normative term is often referred to
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