Melting pot
The melting pot metaphor implies both a melting of cultures and inter marriages of ethnicities, yet cultural assimilation or acculturation can also occur without inter marriage. Thus African- Americans are fully culturally integrated into American culture and institutions. The salad bowl concepts suggests that the integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad, as opposed to the more traditional notion of a cultural melting pot.
As far as a melting pot goes, for generations, Americans have believed in becoming one person. It is critical that we not stress out differences, but rather come together as Americans who believe in a core set of values. We cannot be a United people and also be …show more content…
One does not have to give up their ethnicity to become American. We can have common American values and still focus on what makes us unique. I believe America is strongest when we celebrate our differences. We are stronger when we draw on all of those differences. The beauty of America is that our values transcend our differences. We can be Italian- Americans, Irish- Americans, African-Americans, any type of Americans- yet we remain Americans and believe in the same core principles found in the Declaration of Independence, the constitution, and the Bill of …show more content…
If you wanted a one hundred percent complete melting pot, then you must cast off the incompatible parts of your former culture in order to become part of the new culture. If you happened to follow a line of traditions, then you are risking the disadvantage of those traditions changing and possibly disappearing overtime. I once read a quote and it said “ there is more to culture than spicy food and colorful clothes.” If you so happen to love the art, music, and food, that doesn’t mean your going to love magic being replaced for science or forced polygamy or even honor killings. The value of our differences being way more important than the value of our commonalities, in improving human ingenuity at the ever expanding fringe of evolution. In a melting pot you must keep the individual ingredients discernible, and not let it turn to a homogenous mash by which all people behave in similar ways.
Just like in Lazarus 1: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” This is a great example of how America would be a melting bowel however when we “take” the hungary and the poor then we would be taking their beliefs and changing them. That would be a melting pot but the differences are what make us who we are and that is why we need to have a salad bowl so we are
The melting pot metaphor implies both a melting of cultures and inter marriages of ethnicities, yet cultural assimilation or acculturation can also occur without inter marriage. Thus African- Americans are fully culturally integrated into American culture and institutions. The salad bowl concepts suggests that the integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad, as opposed to the more traditional notion of a cultural melting pot.
As far as a melting pot goes, for generations, Americans have believed in becoming one person. It is critical that we not stress out differences, but rather come together as Americans who believe in a core set of values. We cannot be a United people and also be …show more content…
One does not have to give up their ethnicity to become American. We can have common American values and still focus on what makes us unique. I believe America is strongest when we celebrate our differences. We are stronger when we draw on all of those differences. The beauty of America is that our values transcend our differences. We can be Italian- Americans, Irish- Americans, African-Americans, any type of Americans- yet we remain Americans and believe in the same core principles found in the Declaration of Independence, the constitution, and the Bill of …show more content…
If you wanted a one hundred percent complete melting pot, then you must cast off the incompatible parts of your former culture in order to become part of the new culture. If you happened to follow a line of traditions, then you are risking the disadvantage of those traditions changing and possibly disappearing overtime. I once read a quote and it said “ there is more to culture than spicy food and colorful clothes.” If you so happen to love the art, music, and food, that doesn’t mean your going to love magic being replaced for science or forced polygamy or even honor killings. The value of our differences being way more important than the value of our commonalities, in improving human ingenuity at the ever expanding fringe of evolution. In a melting pot you must keep the individual ingredients discernible, and not let it turn to a homogenous mash by which all people behave in similar ways.
Just like in Lazarus 1: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” This is a great example of how America would be a melting bowel however when we “take” the hungary and the poor then we would be taking their beliefs and changing them. That would be a melting pot but the differences are what make us who we are and that is why we need to have a salad bowl so we are