relationships among various communities of racial‚ ethnic‚ and others we are groping for an image. Some hold on to the notion of a melting pot‚ others believe we have become mosaic like‚ there is the fruit salad metaphor and there is also the tributaries metaphor. The melting pot is a metaphor for the way in which homogeneous societies develop‚ which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures and religions) are combined so as to lose their discrete identities to some degree‚ yielding a
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American culture while living in Chinese culture at home. Her conflict in identity leads her to self-invention as displayed by her idea of American-femininity and the fictitious image of the Woman Warrior‚ thus contradicting the idea of America as a melting pot. Kingston retains both her Chinese and American culture by merging the two together. The tradition of talk-stories and fictitious elements like the Woman Warrior and Fa Mu Lan are evident in the structure of her memoir through which she perceives
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Ethnic and racial assimilation Melting pot or salad bowl Assimilation is the process by which many groups have been made a part of a common cultural life‚ which commonly shared values. The United states is described as a melting pot‚ because various racial and ethnic groups have been combined into one culture. The united states is described as a salad bowl‚ because various groups have remained different from one another. A bicultural group is characterized by considering themselves as
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Bibliography: Fitzpatrick‚ Joseph P. "The Importance of ’Community ’ in the Process of Immigrant Assimilation." International Migration Review 1.1 (1966): 5-16. Miller‚ John J. "Assimilation Enriches America ’s Melting Pot." Insight on the News‚ 10.40 (1994): 20.
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have nothing in common? Why has it become a home to such diversity‚ a refuge to arts of all kind? Cultures and ethnicities and languages all different‚ yet what seems to make them all connect? It ’s not anything‚ but everything. South Street is a melting pot - offering just about everything from German ice cream to a glimpse of an Arabian night. It has been a booming street since its birth‚ evolving with the generations‚ and allowing the neighborhood around to thrive with it. Jane Jacobs‚ an American-Canadian
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Our society reflects racial‚ ethnic‚ and religious diversity. America is a “melting pot” and constitutionally accepts ever man as equal. America was formed by immigration. In history Americans fought for freedom in race such as the Civil War. The Civil War took place because all people didn’t believe in slavery‚ primarily the North disagreed. In America we have law that America no one can make you practice a religion and the government can’t make an official for the country. The American political
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and 19th centuries. Since the phrase “melting pot” was introduced to describe the United States and the vast amount of different cultures and races. Many agreed and many disagreed. Both facts and opinions were abundant on both sides. In fact‚ Eduardo-Bonilla Silva stated “Blacks‚ Chinese‚ Puerto Ricans‚ etcetera‚ could not melt into the pot. They could be used as wood to produce the fire for the pot‚ but they could not be used as material to be melted into the pot.” (Silva‚ 2009). Multiculturalists
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The point of this essay‚ “The Chinese in All of us” by Richard Rodriguez‚ was to show that America is one giant melting pot. That there is no such thing as an “American” culture. An American culture cannot exist as one central thing because there are so many cultures that mixed together to form what we have now. It’s a never ending cycle of growth as a country. The immigrants come to America and with them‚ they bring their ideas and customs. While they learn the customs we already have we‚ in turn
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a ’melting pot.’ A more accurate description might be ’mosaic’ but even better than that is Kingmans’s streams--a metaphor that powerfully brings to mind images of waters that refresh‚ nourish ‚ and sustain the land.. . ." The "melting pot" and the "mosaic" are both much-debated terms with long histories. Here are some Working Definitions (all paraphrased or quoted from Wikipedia). These definitions represent a consensus of informed opinion‚ but are not scientifically binding. The melting pot is
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Richard Rodriguez The Chinese in All of Us A Mexican American Explores Multiculturalism The other day‚ the phone rang; it was a woman who identified herself as the “talent coordinator” for the “Oprah Winfrey Show.” She said Oprah was planning a show on self-hating ethnics. “You know‚” she confided‚ “Norwegians who don’t want to be Norwegian‚ Greeks who hate Greek food.” Anyway‚ she said breezily‚ wouldn’t I like to make an appearance? About 10 years ago I wrote a thin book called Hunger of
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