Should the United States be a melting pot or a tossed salad?

Question

The leftists at my university are teaching youth that America is not a melting pot, but a tossed salad. What do you think?

Answer 1

The United States should be a melting pot. We must be united to remain a world power. The salad bowl metaphor is POLITICALLY CORRECT .

I learned the "tossed salad" thing in elementary school in southern CA. The teachers said "America was once known to be a melting pot but now it's a tossed salad". What the....??? I do not want these types of teachers teaching my future kids.

Answer 2

We are a melting pot, not a tossed salad. By saying we are a tossed salad to me means while living in the "American" bowl you are still a tomato, celery, cumcumber, etc and will never be part of the American bowl.
Nope, we are a melting pot. You want to live in America? Be american FIRST.

Answer 3

A melting pot.In the 1900's immigrants to the U.S. became Americans and were proud of it.In that melting pot we become one.Unfortunately now it is a tossed salad.Every man ,women or nationality wants a separate identity.Blue vs red states.We should be Americans first and nationality second.I am not a white-American I am an American.We need to choose.My ancestors came from Germany in 1904. They would have never thought of themselves as anything less than Americans. No German American there.Our own interests as groups or peoples are separating us from what we are. Americans.United we stand and divided as we are becoming ,will lead to a fall.

Answer 4

Do you really want it to be a melting pot?

If you have a melting pot, as you add a different flavor to it, the taste of EVERYTHING changes. Everything is uniform but it takes on the characteristic flavor of the latest addition. That would mean that as more Mexicans come into this country, we all would become more Mexican.

So think if a melting pot is the metaphor you really want to choose.

Answer 5

somewhat the two relatively, it relies upon oftentimes on the place you're interior the U. S. (that's an excellent united states of america) and how open you're as a guy or woman. If I evaluate the U. S. to the the remainder of the international nonetheless, that's palms down a melting pot.

Answer 6

As individuals, we should be free to be what we want.

That includes my being free to not do business with or hire people that don't speak English, which is their problem, not mine. I'm not about to try to learn a foreign language for the convenience of people that chose to come here, legally or otherwise, and can't be bothered to learn English.

Yeah, we can be a tossed salad, but don't blame whitey when the furriners who don't learn to speak English don't have the same opportunities that average joes have.

The salad bar folks will marginalize themselves, those who assimilate will have more opportunities. Not my fault, their choice.

Answer 7

What is the difference? Could you edit and elaborate?
I would have to say tossed salad, then. If we wanted to be a melting pot first we would have to give equal rights to all citizens.

Answer 8

thats weird, in my school we were just learning that america is like a melting pot and then we had a project were we had to come up with our own symble

Answer 9

Melting pot would be best.

Answer 10

It's a melting pot. If it's not then there will be chaos.