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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America 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
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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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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 mean believing in equality for all races. On the contrary to this ideal‚ the majority of the founders had slaves‚ because slave labor was the cheapest labor. For example‚ Jefferson condemned the moral depravity of slavery and the
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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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America as the melting pot results from the fact that the country has many of its people coming from everywhere across the world and thus bringing with them different customs‚ beliefs‚ and cultures that should be assimilated to one. The purpose of the assimilation of the different cultures and customs is to make America a one nation. However‚ this is in contrary to the common belief since America is actually not a ‘melting pot’. Most researchers instead argue that America is ‘salad bowl’ owing to
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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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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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Canada prides itself at home and abroad as a country made 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
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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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