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Is America A Melting Pot Analysis

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,America becomes "God's Crucible,(as one Israelian author described),the great melting pot , where all the races of Europe are melting , and reforming! That is to say,the USA is traditionally called a melting pot because with time generation of immegrants have melted together , they have abondoned their cultures to become totally assimilated into American society , now the question we need to ask ;"Is America a melting pot in which different people from different cultures assimilate or come together to creat a new ,common culture?or is it more of mosaic , in which people share a common nationality but largely retain their own cultures and living in clusters with those who share their native cultures? As a matter of fact ;cultural diversity …show more content…

From which the excerpt pertaining to the utopian model comes from the appealing court blocks Obama's immigration plan, that envisions many different peoples living in close ,proximity doing their own things ,speaking their own languages and bound by the common interests;collected the problem with the nation as a mosaic concept is that there is no succeful model of disparate people,who share little aside from geography , living harmoniously …show more content…

In fact this never really happened ,the U.S turned out to be more of salad bowl than a melting pot. Groups from similar national and ethnic backgrounds often stayed together,keeping alive their own identities and many of their old customs.They lived in "China towns"or "Little Italy's" That is ,our conclusion comes to draw up the upshot;what needs to be negotiated is the proper balance betwwen the cultural rights of individual groups and the common good, this negotiated order must be grounded in mutual respect , because in the current era cultural memory is replaced by the cultural homogenization of mass culture , by that we need to forget cultural civil ignorance

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