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 permanently
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is called the melting pot for a reason. According to dictionary.com a melting pot is an environment in which many idea and races are socially assimilated. However‚ we don’t comprehend the amount of diversity that lives outside of our country as much. Despite Americas push back when it comes to accepting people of all different walks of life we have and are learning to accept it more as time progresses. I believe with this that we are very similar to Brazil in ways. Brazilian culture has embraced and
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Are We a Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? Are We a Melting Pot or a Salad Bowl? Unless an American citizen is a Native American‚ he or she is part of a great country filled with immigrants. Those who came before us‚ our ancestors‚ came here from every corner of this small world. There was a time‚ and it was not so long ago‚ when America’s motto was “give us your tired and weak” etc. We embraced immigrants that sought a new life here. That‚ however‚ is no longer the case as the problem of
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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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must include a culture. About a specific section related to the concept of cultural concepts depends on the development of the second chapter throughout the text. Such coexistence‚ mosaics‚ such as the salad bowl metaphor was used to describe the cultural diversity that characterizes the United States. According to the US Census Bureau‚ 50 percent close of the US population is composed of people of minority Emerging used to classify the population terms in 2050 diverse racial‚ ethnic and cultural groups
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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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Laura Stoeckle 14 September 2010 ENG 201 TTH 9:30 America: The Melting Pot? For as far back as history books go there have been stories about people moving from one place to another. Immigration is defined as the movement of people from one country to another for the sole purpose of a stable residence. The United States of America has always been known as the melting pot of the world. Now our country is being faced with people trying to come here illegally and it is creating an argument
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up of a cultural mosaic rather than a cultural melting pot. The mosaic is based on our belief that Canada as a whole becomes stronger by having immigrants bring with them their cultural diversity for all Canadians to learn from. The cultural melting pot‚ as adopted in the United States‚ tells immigrants that no matter who they have been in the past‚ upon landing on American shores‚ they are Americans and are expected to adopt and follow the American way. -------------------------------------------------
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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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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 plans
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