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Is America a melting pot or multicultural?
Posted on 4/5/16 at 9:57 am
Posted on 4/5/16 at 9:57 am
America is the land of promise and opportunity. Naturally we attract large amounts of immigrants. When these immigrants come to America they can enmesh into our culture or they can chose not to change and maintain their own identify as a foreign national. People used to come to this country hoping to blend in and learn the language and get educated. Now it seems that immigrants are in such large numbers they have been able to establish their own culture in America. America is no longer a melting pot but a multicultural enclave of immigrants. If we are not careful we are going to lose our identity as Americans.
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Posted on 4/5/16 at 9:58 am to rebeloke
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lose our identity as Americans.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 9:59 am to Green Chili Tiger
He was Italian
And people of almost all ethnicities used to assimilate and become part of the great American machine. Proud to be American and willing to work hard for a better life.
Come to think of it, the ones who didn't assimilate and wanted to be separate are most of the ones causing problems in America today.
And people of almost all ethnicities used to assimilate and become part of the great American machine. Proud to be American and willing to work hard for a better life.
Come to think of it, the ones who didn't assimilate and wanted to be separate are most of the ones causing problems in America today.
This post was edited on 4/5/16 at 10:03 am
Posted on 4/5/16 at 9:59 am to rebeloke
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:00 am to rebeloke
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Is America a melting pot, multicultural, or a clusterfrick? by
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:04 am to rebeloke
Did you just use American in a way that otherizes and denigrates the people of Central and South America bro?
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:06 am to rebeloke
i think we are more like a gumbo
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:10 am to tke857
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i think we are more like a gumbo
Natives are the dark brown roux...who is the okra?
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:11 am to fr33manator
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:15 am to rebeloke
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People used to come to this country hoping to blend in and learn the language and get educated.
This works quicker when your ethnic group looks close enough to the majority of the resident population. It's why Irish and Polack immigrants in the early 1900's were eventually able to assimilate. However, when you look drastically different, the effects of xenophobia towards you are more long lasting.
An example of this is how you tend to see "Asian" kids winning the national spelling bee competitions, and people openly question why you never see an American kid win it. The kids are often first generation Americans that were born here, yet their minority status leads people to believe that they are foreigners. If it were won by a kid born in Russia and raised in the US, you likely would never have someone make that assumption.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:27 am to Bmath
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An example of this is how you tend to see "Asian" kids winning the national spelling bee competitions, and people openly question why you never see an American kid win it. The kids are often first generation Americans that were born here, yet their minority status leads people to believe that they are foreigners. If it were won by a kid born in Russia and raised in the US, you likely would never have someone make that assumption.
Most people I know think Asian-Americans are amazing additions to this country. They go to great lengths to get here and stay permanently. They cannot just run across the border and squat. They are proud to be here and are generally hard workers and take care of their families. I see hardly no xenophobia towards Asian-Americans and if you ask them they feel none. My opinion.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:38 am to fr33manator
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Natives are the dark brown roux...who is the okra?
The aliens...the illegal aliens that is. Bc to me I could def do without the okra infact I'd rather not have it but I know some people dont mind it.
This post was edited on 4/5/16 at 10:39 am
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:46 am to rebeloke
Neither; we're white privilege central....haven't you been reading the news?
This post was edited on 4/5/16 at 11:26 am
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:52 am to lsu13lsu
While I agree that things are easier for Asian families than other minority populations, there are still examples of biases towards them. Also, there are plenty of cities where they don't assimilate because they move to an area with a well established community (i.e. Chinatown).
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:54 am to rebeloke
It used to be a melting pot. Now it's multicultural. There are areas in this country where english isn't spoken or written, and where the inhabitants don't consider themselves Americans.
That wouldn't have flown prior to this century.
That wouldn't have flown prior to this century.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 10:55 am to rebeloke
Tossed salad. The European immigrants, and to a lessar extent East Asians, have more or less assimilated and lost their distinctive cultures over the last 60 years.
However, Hispanic, African, and Middle Eastern immigrants have fiercely maintained their cultures.
Indians (both varieties) have done some of both.
However, Hispanic, African, and Middle Eastern immigrants have fiercely maintained their cultures.
Indians (both varieties) have done some of both.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 12:28 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
This kind of sums it up.
Posted on 4/5/16 at 12:41 pm to rebeloke
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This post was edited on 4/5/16 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 4/5/16 at 1:27 pm to rebeloke
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they can enmesh into our culcha
FiFY
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