The Melting Pot
To foreign countries, the U.S. seems to be the "melting pot" but it's not. The term melting pot means a heterogeneous society becoming a homogeneous society which means that people of different cultures and religions have mixed together and come together. America has accepted other cultures and religions but not to the point where everyone is involved with everyone. People say the U.S. is diverse because we have people of different ethnicities, religions, and cultures who live here. But if you take a deeper look into America, you will see that America is still segregated many ways. For example, Claude McKay's explanation of America in his poem "America" expresses the hardships America has put minorities through. Although we were accepted by society, America has still made it hard for minorities to fit into society.
Rural racial and ethnic minorities are among the poorest of all Americans. Employment hardship is more prevalent among non-metropolitan African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans than it is among either their central city counterparts or non-Hispanic whites. Ethnic minorities face barriers to social mobility and job opportunities which doesn’t show equal …show more content…
She was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. In "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston describes her experiences as an African-American woman in early 20th Century America. She describes people as different colored bags which are filled with the random things that make up life. She described how her life changed once her mother died and she was forced to leave Florida. This poem is an example of how America is still segregated yet diverse at the same time. She didn’t experience any discrimination where she grew up but once she left and went to live somewhere else, they were less accepting of her skin color and what came along with
To foreign countries, the U.S. seems to be the "melting pot" but it's not. The term melting pot means a heterogeneous society becoming a homogeneous society which means that people of different cultures and religions have mixed together and come together. America has accepted other cultures and religions but not to the point where everyone is involved with everyone. People say the U.S. is diverse because we have people of different ethnicities, religions, and cultures who live here. But if you take a deeper look into America, you will see that America is still segregated many ways. For example, Claude McKay's explanation of America in his poem "America" expresses the hardships America has put minorities through. Although we were accepted by society, America has still made it hard for minorities to fit into society.
Rural racial and ethnic minorities are among the poorest of all Americans. Employment hardship is more prevalent among non-metropolitan African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans than it is among either their central city counterparts or non-Hispanic whites. Ethnic minorities face barriers to social mobility and job opportunities which doesn’t show equal …show more content…
She was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. In "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston describes her experiences as an African-American woman in early 20th Century America. She describes people as different colored bags which are filled with the random things that make up life. She described how her life changed once her mother died and she was forced to leave Florida. This poem is an example of how America is still segregated yet diverse at the same time. She didn’t experience any discrimination where she grew up but once she left and went to live somewhere else, they were less accepting of her skin color and what came along with