why, why not?
2006-10-31 06:16:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, though it melts slowly. After a couple of generations, the people from foreign countries tend to dress, speak and act like the others in their host country, while still retaining vestiges of their foreign origins.
2006-10-31 06:20:58 · answer #1 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I do not think melting pot is a good description of the United States ( I put that in because America covers from Canada to Chile). A melting pot would mean that everything eventually is one thing. The United States is more like a big stew pot, the components are identifiable yet they all add to the overall flavor.
2006-10-31 14:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think melting pot is a good description of America. It insinuates that we all melt together and become one. I think a salad bowl or an orchestra would be a better metaphor for America. An orchestra has many different parts, yet they come together to make something beautiful.
2006-10-31 14:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by happyha31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No , America definitely not a melting pot.
London is a better example of a melting pot, you can see different cultures really fusing together to create whole new subcultures,
America is more like a salad bowl, all the different vegetables live together in the same bowl. but still maintain their distinct textures and flavors.
2006-10-31 14:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by Tinnaaa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think its a good description. If you think of a melting pot, everything becomes the same. We are not all the same, and most people are not striving to be that way either. I think we're more like a bag of M&'M's. All different on the outside, but still people on the inside---and some are nuts!
2006-10-31 14:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by melouofs 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, and the idea of it is better than the official muliticulturalism imposed by Canadian government policy, which encourages segregation and the rejection of mainstream Canadian values, history, language and lifestyle. I am not against, say, bilingual education for larger ethnic groups like French Canadians, Chinese Canadians or Hispanics, but I do not like how each group sticks to its own neighbourhood and own schools without any classes or friends with others outside their groups. I was not raised this way.
My parents are European immigrants and they had to assimilate. They may have been too stringent about it. We only spoke English at home. I would have liked to learn French. I could have taken French immersion. The difference is, that 70 percent of your classes are in French and the others are with all the other students in English, art, gym, band, etc. Also, it is in the same school and all school events are together. Some schools now segregate. The daycare is separate, the school is separate and all students must be French or of French ancestry.
2006-10-31 14:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Melting pot of the few rich only and rest are only new slaves for the few rich Melting pot
2006-10-31 14:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
More like "smelting" pot, since there is an insidious and persistent campaign to melt diversity into a homogeneity.
What more perfect business model could there be than to standardize your consumer?
2006-10-31 14:23:33 · answer #8 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.....a melting pot would mean a balanced of all people.....there is no balance, minorities are valued like seasoning in the pot and those in charge can just improvise with something else
2006-10-31 14:21:07 · answer #9 · answered by Diamond in the Rough 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From the outside, it may have melted down, but hasn't mixed yet.
2006-10-31 14:20:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋