sitting somewhere between fear and excitement‚ expectation and trepidation. As we become a more globalized society one would think that it would be easier to accept or even become a part of a different culture. Even with the current mainstream melting pot theory where all immigrants were expected to assimilate into the American mainstream while fighting for one country (immigrant assimilaiton‚ 1998) it is still a challenge to be completely assimilated to one culture. A few challenges are communication
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By definition multiculturalism is an ideal where several cultures manage to coexist amongst each other. It is both a beneficial and problematic way of living. But it has become necessary to overcome the issues and be able to handle the mixing of cultures because the globalizing of the world today. The main reason multiculturalism can be an issue is because when people with different values live close together in a society and depend on each other‚ there is bound to be some sort of friction between
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Every story has a conflict‚ conversely not all have winners. In “Seventh Grade” the conflict is internal. A character will consider an idea within themselves. This idea may be conflicting‚ but it stays inside. In “Melting Pot” the conflicts are external. External conflicts take place externally with other people. In the passage “Seventh Grade” the conflict is Victor conflicting internally. He wants to be able to chatter Teresa without giving off the impression that he likes her. Also‚ Victor
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that multiculturalism and multiracialism does not work for every society and may possibly create divided groups that will‚ in serious cases‚ cause social instability. Even if there are successful historical examples like the great and idealistic Melting Pot in the United States‚ there are still societies and places where the policy of multiculturalism is not applicable. There are actually societies where the diversity brings about the separation of people into groups of different cultures and races
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The United States: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? 1. Immigrants from all around the world have come to settle in the United States where they all gathered together and created one “Americanized” culture. All of the people in this culture have a lot of the same traits. Most of the Americans speak English. Almost all Americans dress the same and eat a lot of the same foods. Public schooling‚ communication around the world‚ and other influences shaped the US. 2. All of the immigrants that
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progress‚ I want to promote the importance there is behind the civic duties we follow‚ the traditions we hold‚ and the amount of respect we as americans place on our troops. Although there may be differences‚ and America is one of the biggest on-going melting pots with multiple backgrounds‚ each person shares a responsibility to upkeep the love of our freedom. For Americans to come together and share in the traditions that have been made before us and the ones we continue to create are the ways we can represent
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What features of ’Willow Tree and Olive’ make it worthy to study? ’Willow Tree and Olive’ is a post- modernist novel by Irini Savvedes. The story presents a period of a young girl’s life during which we see her discover and accept things about herself by remembering things from her past that she has tried to forget. Olive is a teenage girl in her last year of school trying to get through the difficulties that come with adolescence: fitting into school‚ her family and her culture. A speaker who
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http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/social_loafing.htm The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2010 Edition)‚ Edward N. Zalta (ed.)‚ From: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/multiculturalism/>. Hirschman‚ C. (1983). America ’s Melting Pot Reconsidered. Annual Review Of Sociology‚ 9397-423. Klehe‚ U.‚ Anderson‚ N.‚ & Hoefnagels‚ E. A. (2007). Social Facilitation and Inhibition During Maximum Versus Typical Performance Situations. Human Performance‚ 20(3)‚ 223-239. doi:10.1080/08959280701333040
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You’re living in America you should care about what’s going on here not over there. So in my family there is no unity. During the US elections‚ there is no discussing because they just wouldn’t know and probably wouldn’t care. The US is a giant melting pot‚ as different ethnicity continue to grow‚ I do fear that there will be less and less interest in what goes on in America and the unity of America will
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The American Dream The United States of America has for a while been referred to as “the melting pot”. In the city of New York‚ there are many nationalities which may be cannot be compared with any other part of the world. Many of these people left their motherlands in search for better life in the American soil considered the land of the free. Well‚ writers have in the past shown interest and have in fact written about the issues people fought with in America both in the past and in modern days
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