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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“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that the people who had immigrated to America had left their old traditions behind to start a new country free from outdated laws; this idea was also linked to American Exceptionalism as America was ‘Exceptional’ for these reasons.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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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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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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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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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
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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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Recognizing the Power of “The Melting Pot” Less than half of the nation turns out to vote on Election Day. The idea behind low voter turnout is typically explained by a low sense of civic duty and the problem of the collective vote. People are discouraged from engaging in political activity because of the belief that their vote will not affect the outcome‚ that the system is corrupt‚ that they do not have enough information‚ or that they simply do not care because the policies are irrelevant to
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What is melting pot for today? How it associate to malaysian cuisine ( DURIAN CREPE ) The defination of melting pot according to the encyclopedia litterly means‚ a pot in which or other materials are melted. It also carries others meanings which is‚ a place where diffrent people styles‚ the services are mixed together. Besides all the above‚ it also means a place where a varity of races‚ cultures or indivivuals assimilate into a cohesive whole which is people get close together.
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In the melting pot of cultures in the United States‚ Hmong people are among the most misunderstood and enigmatic ethnic groups. Throughout history‚ during the most uneasy and difficult time‚ when Laos experienced civil war in the 1950s and 1960s‚ the Hmong sided with the government‚ fearing a communist regime would disrupt their independence. The Vietnam War resulted in the Hmong to siding with the United States to oppose Vietnamese and Laotian communists‚ lose a huge percent of their population
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