Tejinder Ranu Due Date: November 21‚ 2007 Professor: Jonathan Baker After reading the article called “End of the melting Pot: The new wave of immigrants presents new challenges” by Ashley Pettus‚ I feel I have mixed reactions as to what the author is trying to convey by saying whether if it really is the end of the melting pot. United States is a country of Immigrants‚ where all cultures come and meet. Immigration is the act of relocating to another country or region‚ whether temporarily or
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Ingredients of the Melting Pot When reflecting on a timeline of America‚ what is clear is that this nation has grown in many ways due to far-reaching ideas‚ movements‚ and historical events. Immigrants who decided to continue their lives in the United States remain as the key factor of keeping this country functioning at the prosperous rate that it is. Unfortunately‚ Immigration has always been a controversial matter in America. Nonetheless‚ the population of the United States’ composes of citizens
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this country‚ America has protected religious freedom. Initially in 1779‚ Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom which was an act establishing religious freedom. Proving its precedence over race to our founders‚ the guarantee for the freedom of religion was cemented in the first amendment (Religious Freedom‚ auburn.edu). It takes the smallest amount of common sense to see why religion was more important than race. The belief in the American melting pot would essentially
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American Mosaic Mosaic is a decorative art form that creates new images from many small pieces of dissimilarly colored materials. Through creative arrangement of different jumbled pieces‚ Mosaic artists can achieve a brand-new image that delivers greater beauty and more meaningful than the sum of all the pieces that makes up the mosaic. Similar to mosaic‚ many countries are consists of citizens with different racial and cultural backgrounds. As most people known that the most unique country is
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America today is thought to be the melting pot of the free‚ where people from far and wide can come to enjoy a life of ease. As what Jimmy Carter says “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people‚ different beliefs‚ different yearnings‚ different hopes‚ different dream”. Although it may seem nice to have a true melting pot society‚ times have drastically changed since this theory was coined together in the 1780’s. America still has a long way to go until it achieves the
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First used by Israel Zangwill in a 1908 play‚ the term “Melting Pot” considers the American Dream‚ the incorporation and Americanization of immigrants in the American society. The melting pot derives from a process called assimilation‚ which consists of adoption of a host country’s cultures. This may imply sometimes the abandoning of some aspects of the ethnic culture of an individual (Zanca). The melting pot is an idea of “individuals of all nations melted into a new race of men‚” as J. Hector St
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Culturally I identify with the American culture and the African American subculture of North America as referenced in our text African American culture differs from African culture. I will discuss my current cultural perspective as it pertains to communication. When I grew up in Buffalo‚ New York my family practiced Catholicism‚ we attended the local African American Catholic church and school this was not the norm in the African american community. Most African Americans in my community practiced
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impossible to locate one city which embodies American diversity. A colony started by the French was the first area to fully integrate culture and religion. The city of New Orleans‚ now prosperous from its diversity‚ epitomizes the "American Melting Pot". It is complicated to relate such different backgrounds‚ but with an overview of history‚ culture‚ religion‚ and integration on a small scale‚ a reader is capable of applying the values to the American culture as a whole. In 1699 the first
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The melting pot is a theory in which came about in the Revolutionary period by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur. His theory envisioned that America was a “melting pot”‚ where individuals of all nations are melted together to become a new race of men. The term melting pot refers to the idea that societies formed by immigrants of different cultures‚ religions‚ and ethnic groups‚ will produce new hybrid social and cultural forms. The notion comes from the pot in which metals are melted at great
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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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