Eva Kolb Melting Pot Summary

However whereas the melting pot does exist based of coercion in the Eva Kolb’s story, in the New York’s story immigrants have a choice to assimilate in the country. The melting pot was a vision maintained by cultural division of labor. The vision yield hypothetical result about a cultural of people. These results were consider hypothetical because it shows discrimination between “the other” and how much they can really produce.Because this result provide hypothetical result it did not yield any realistic answers to the labor stats. It provides zero evidence on the human factor or how much man power does it takes. It was based on stereotypes of the other. For example it say if you Jewish then you are an accountant. It was based solely on stereotypes and not so much realistic evidence on actual people. …show more content…
Before the civil war in America, Black were treated as slave and segregation for their color of their skin. Although this is still racism it also defines how the melting pot is a myth. It is a myth because America did not use coerce or any forceable methods on the black instead there were treated different but still allowed to keep their self imagine alive(“New York”). This is different from Jake in Eva Kolb’s story because It has shows that America is a country of free choice; and nobody will ever coerce you do anything against your will, beside paying taxes. Also it did provide any evidence to proof their hypothetical answers about a certain religions. Instead it gives certain religions the benefits and others not so