Summary Of The Myth Of The Melting Pot, Gentrification

Upon reading the selections The Myth of the Melting Pot, Gentrification, and How Immigrants Became Other, one notices a shocking trend: The “land of the free,” isn't really what it claims to be. From ideas of white supremacy, to heterogenous cultural mixtures that result in only one uniform product, to the rejection of outsiders, America is not the melting pot that it has pretended to be for centuries. Ever since the founding of the colonies, so-called Americans have never been truly and intimately intertwined. As one peels away the facade, it becomes evident that citizens in this great land favor sweeping differences under the rug rather than facing them, keeping shame in the dark, and inferiority and superiority mounted on the wall. Who sings

It must be noted that whites and blacks are commonly associated with America. Once you look past these two races, one often identify others as un-American and may even call them foreign while they might be just as American as the next guy. Unfortunately, in this great land, there are people that the government is only too glad to arrest for simply being on American soil without proper documentation. It appears that Americans no longer stand by that fabled inscription on the Statue of Liberty that reads so nobly, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door" (YourDictionary). The American people feel so entitled, that they would refuse hard-working individuals willing to make personal sacrifices only to live in this land with people who don’t seem to want them around. The land of the free does not welcome outsiders and it makes it incredibly difficult to grant citizenship to those wanting to live here. Freedom must surely be changing in