Melting pot

The Melting Pot was written by Adrienne Rich in 1968. She was an American poet. Taken from poets.org, she wrote poetry collection like The Diamond Cutters (Harper & Brothers, 1955), Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Harper & Row, 1963), Leaflets (W. W. Norton, 1969), and the others more. In that 1960s poetry, the content of her poem explores about women’s role in society, racism, and the Vietnam War. One of that is The Melting Pot (1968), its content is about racism. On each stanza, this poem…

America: the Melting Pot of Capitalism The "melting pot" phrase normally applies to the formation of American culture mostly shaping in the early to mid nineteen hundreds when a flood of immigrants came to America looking for anything new ranging from a new job opportunity to religious freedom. The particular time also incited a stricter formation of social classes with the lower class handling poverty and cases of starvation, middle class being families with median income mostly able to provide…

The world came together from everyone migrating one place to another. Our nation, the United States of America, was made from immigrants. There’s a good amount of every nationality here. If we didn’t have diversity, life would be quite boring. Having different languages, and cultures is fun learning about and experiencing. Others have their own opinions on major topics. Some people believe immigration should be stopped, and others think differently. Immigration reform mainly focuses on…

People from all different types of backgrounds form our unique nation. America is not what we know it as today without diversity. From the start of our nation diversity has existed. Depending on who our ancestors this can many times affect our culture and our way of thinking. America people are different but together and we have seen this throughout history. American number one priory has been freedom. Not just when we fought against British rule but when African Americans spoke out against…

From the establishment of the first colony in Jamestown, to the immigration of millions of Europeans through Ellis Island, the United States of America is a melting pot of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Every immigrant’s story is different, and to generalize that all immigrants came to America for a single reason would be unfair. America is a land of prestige and freedom where many people were and are still drawn. While all three authors agreed on America’s sense of diversity, Eric Liu’s…

ethnicity or group. Some prime every day examples of countries are Mexico, China and the United Kingdom. However, when it comes to the U.S it’s been widely different from the others as it’s considered a melting pot. The reason why the United States is well known with this word is because, in a "melting pot" a variety of customs, cultures and lifestyle beliefs are “co-existing” and to some degree merging together. Also to some extent this idea of being multicultural has been a major reason for…

The term “Melting Pot” describes a model of ethnic relations in which a nation-state's constituent ethnic groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. The phrase entered popular parlance with such élan that its origins still remain unknown and obscure to most people. Although one might safely attribute the wide-spread dissemination of the idea to Israel Zangwill, the Anglo-Jewish Zionist-turned-assimilationist, similar references had already been made by writers like J. Hector St. John de…

targeted and racially abused because of their race. I am included in this group, to overcome and cope with this issue I needed the support of my family to guide me and help me make the right decisions. The United States is most likely the largest “melting pot” in the world. As a result of this, many would think that the U.S. would be accepting to all races…

American politician, Hillary Clinton once said, “We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all religions, can make a home. America was built by immigrants” (Clinton). Afterall, the United States was created by immigrants who came in to form their own way of life, and practiced religions they believed in. But, in America today it seems as if people are making stereotypes once they see a specific religious group. Even though, they came from a group of people who helped shape this country…

As stated by Jay Parini, "We [the United States] are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors" (BrainyQuote). America is the culmination of peoples and cultures from all across the world. As a seamstress adds and moves pieces while making the American quilt, each change brings different challenges and excitement to the beautiful work. One such dynamic alteration to the fabric of America was the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans moved north, driven by opportunity.…