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Salad Bowl

Melting Pot

Negative aspects of multiculturalism:

  • Third worldization (Americans fear that their standard of living will get worse);
  • The more a society is mixed, the more different ideologies it has, and the more conflictual it gets;
  • Tensions between ethnics(problem of assimilating the culture);
  • In some places of the country, the white population is no longer a majority.
  • a place where different types of people live together and gradually create one community, a heterogeneous society developing into a homogeneous multi-ethnic group of people
  • when the immigrants don't lose the unique aspects of their cultures, like in the melting pot, instead they retain them.

The unique characteristics of each culture are still identifiable within the larger American society, much like the ingredients in a salad.

Positive aspects of multiculturalism:

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." - Jimmy Carter

• A rich landscape;

• Diversity of languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German;

• Diversity of religions: Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus;

• Diversity of ideas, identities and values.

Little Italy in Mulberry Street, NYC

Quotes from famous americans

“The Constitution only guarantees

the American people the right to pursue happiness.

You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin

Bibliography

"Our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers.

We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth." - Barack Obama

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism#United_States
  • http://www.cglearn.it/mysite/civilization/american-culture/a-story-of-immigration/melting-pot-or-salad-bowl/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans
  • http://www.lmg.pf.bw.schule.de/faecher/englisch/landeskunde/page7/page7.html

The American Dream

Chinatown in Manhattan, NYC

America is a land of opportunities and new beginnings, open to all.

Multiculturalism in the UsA

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