Personal Narrative: America Is A Melting Pot

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“America is a melting pot.” This metaphor is often used to describe America’s strong diversity for there is hardly anyone in this country who is purely one nationality. I am a person who has ancestors from many locations. After interviewing some of my family and doing lots of researching, I have learned that I am very diverse. I am 1/8 Greek, Sioux, Irish, French-Canadian and Hungarian; 1/16 Croatian and Slovakian; and 1/4 Italian. How did that all come together? Well, that is another story. My dad’s father and my mom’s great grandfather both emigrated from their homes in Europe to America. On my mom’s side, my great-great-grandfather, John Laskaris, emigrated from Greece in 1889. In the 1820s, the Greek War of Independence left the country