Melting Pot or Salad Bowl

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 settled in the United States came together as one country, but they kept their own traditions, cultures, foods, languages, religions, etc. Many things show that they still keep their ways. Restaurants with different foods such as Italian or Chinese. People from different places around the world live in different places in the US such as Mexicans living in Texas. There are churches, synagogues, and mosques for many kinds of religions. There are festivals and holidays that are celebrated in the US by certain people. It’s saying that the US has people from all around the world that still have their cultures and traditions, and that it isn’t mixed together into one thing. 3. I think that today the United States is a salad bowl. The things that I talked about in question 2 explain my answer. People that come and came here still have their religions, traditions, cultures, foods, dress, etc., today. As I said before, many things show that the people in the US still keep their ways. There are restaurants that serve different foods. A lot of people live in the same area as their ethnic group. To teach and preserve different religions and some traditions there are churches, synagogues, and mosques. A lot of festivals and holidays are celebrated by different people. It shows you that the cultures and traditions are not mixed together like a melting pot. 4. Currently, there are a couple a few problems with immigration into the US. One problem is people from