In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the problem of assimilation. Her works are representation of a movement from expatriation to immigration coinciding with her own immigration from Canada to USA. Her writings during her stay in Canada present her interpretation and reaction of her experiences
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The term mosaic gained form in the work of John Murray Gibbons by the name of Canadian Mosaic (1938) whereas the term melting pot emerged as a result of Israel Zangwills’ play The Melting Pot (1908). Both the terms have achieved historic importance as they carry a belief and describe a national ideology. Therefore for the situations in Canada it is called the ‘cultural mosaic’ and for America it is said to be the ‘melting pot’ both are considered as the elements of multiculturalism. Mosaic is a mix of various cultural, religious and ethnic groups that exist in a society where everyone can keep their cultural identity in the foreign society and they completely become a part of this society.
There is a difference in the situation in the USA for they consider their society to be a ‘melting pot’ i.e. all heterogeneous things become homogenous. The culture of minorities “melts down” to the American culture and society and it becomes a symbol for immigrants’ assimilation to the American culture. It is very thus very much evident that both the nations have different attitude towards the immigrants. Where Canada does not want to do away with the immigrants’ cultural identity, American on the contrary expects of the immigrant to become a part of their
The term mosaic gained form in the work of John Murray Gibbons by the name of Canadian Mosaic (1938) whereas the term melting pot emerged as a result of Israel Zangwills’ play The Melting Pot (1908). Both the terms have achieved historic importance as they carry a belief and describe a national ideology. Therefore for the situations in Canada it is called the ‘cultural mosaic’ and for America it is said to be the ‘melting pot’ both are considered as the elements of multiculturalism. Mosaic is a mix of various cultural, religious and ethnic groups that exist in a society where everyone can keep their cultural identity in the foreign society and they completely become a part of this society.
There is a difference in the situation in the USA for they consider their society to be a ‘melting pot’ i.e. all heterogeneous things become homogenous. The culture of minorities “melts down” to the American culture and society and it becomes a symbol for immigrants’ assimilation to the American culture. It is very thus very much evident that both the nations have different attitude towards the immigrants. Where Canada does not want to do away with the immigrants’ cultural identity, American on the contrary expects of the immigrant to become a part of their