“The Melting Pot‚” New York City is known for its cultural diversity. With its iconic landmarks and architectural design‚ it showcases different aspects from the world. Across the pond lies its counterpart‚ London‚ the central hub of the United Kingdom. After being colonized by the Dutch‚ New York was controlled by the British until the United States gained independence. It was here that two cities‚ New York City and London‚ followed the same architectural movements; however‚ after gaining independence
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Melting Pot or Mosaic‚ which one? Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements‚ such as language‚ religion‚ race and ethnicity‚ clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others‚ we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving‚ ever changing civilization‚ which includes several different groups people. For immigrants‚ America is a land of opportunity; for others
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America: The Melting Pot The term the melting pot was coined in 1782 by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. It was a term used to describe the new country and all of its new inhabitants. Where people from different countries and different races and ethnicities could come together to form a new race of people; the American. It encompassed taking the good‚ strong qualities from each culture and keeping them to form an overall new culture. “Across four centuries‚ the steady arrival of millions
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look the same or even sound the same‚ each American is different in their own way. There is not a description of a perfect “American Citizen”. America is a big “melting pot”. “The ideal of the melting pot symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality and we have come to realize in modern times that the melting pot need not mean the end of particular identities or traditions.” (Kennedy‚ 27).
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The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse society‚ I have learned new concepts of living‚ new ways to think‚ and have been introduced to a variety of foods that I have enjoyed. It seems in the end many of the groups that are so different have a common interest which
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One of the first things that young students are taught in American history is the idea of a ‘Great American Melting Pot’. This idea has been formulated over many years and deals with the immense amount of immigration to America and how society allows these groups to live among them in peace. Thomas Paine in The Rights of Man confirms this idea of diverse groups working together‚ often times when it seems impossible they could‚ and creating a successful society and government. This classification
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America is called the “Melting Pot” because of the diversity of the American culture. The migration and immigration of different cultures and people created America’s identity and its nickname of the “Melting Pot”. The American identity began developing in the 1600’s with the construction of colonial America. Throughout the 1800’s‚ America’s identity was developed by thousands of immigrants who entered America and the migration of people within America. Between the 19th and 20th century‚ and even
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point of America was not to preserve old cultures but to forge a new‚ American culture. This was the ideal that a century later Israel Zangwill crystallized in the title of his popular 1908 play The Melting Pot. The new American identity was inescapably English in language‚ ideas and institutions. The pot did not melt everybody‚ not even all the white immigrants; deeply bred racism put black Americans‚ yellow Americans‚ red Americans and brown Americans well outside the pale. In the 20th century‚
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is called a melting pot; however‚ I would argue that America should no longer be called a melting pot. The term melting pot suggests that immigrants should assimilate into American culture. Instead‚ America should be looked upon as a salad bowl society or a mosaic work of art allowing our newcomers to bring their racial and ethnic differences to the country. This allows our newcomers to “retain their own national characteristics while integrating into a new society” (“Melting Pot America”). We
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America: Melting Pot vs. Salad Bowl Multiculturalism is also known as ethnic diversity relating to communities containing multiple cultures. The term is used in two different broad ways‚ descriptively and normatively. By using the descriptive term‚ we usually refer to the simple fact of cultural diversity. This can be applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place and sometimes at the organizational level such as schools‚ neighborhoods or nations. The normative term is often referred to
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