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
"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