Comparing My Melting Pot To American Culture

America has been known as a melting pot for a long time, many foreigners came to this country to become part of the culture here. People from all over the world came here to become part of the big melting pot known as America, no matter what country you came from and what your culture was, you came to America to forget all that and start a fresh new life. When immigrants came to this country, they came to mix in with America and become “Americans.” They came here to become part of the big culture of America. I came to America on July 8, 2005, the first thing that I noticed about America was all the different types of people here with all the different types of cultures they were from. When I came to America with my family I quickly saw that people here were one, they were Americans, but they were also engaged with their own culture and freely practicing in what they most believed in. This showed me the other concept which Americans live by, the salad bowl concept, where America is the bowl and all the people living in America are the different types of vegetables in …show more content…
Melting pot concept is much more preferable because it gives people the same point of view, more people will have the same type of mindset and their beliefs will also be similar. Which helps people understand each other, respects the other persons ideas because it most likely will be like their own belief. Whereas in the salad bowl concept there will be many different types of groups and different types of thinking in those groups, which would cause clash between these groups because of the different nature. Both salad bowl and melting pot concepts can be used to explain America, but melting pot is more preferable for the fact that it allows people to have similar thinking causing fewer fight between people with two different types of