We as Americans pride our selves with our diversity. After all we are one big melting pot. However Much of the time I find that that is not the case, we are not as diverse as we would like to think. Classes do much more than sperate wealth, they also separate culture and beliefs. Their is a Korea Town, China town, and a Little Italy, by calling America a "big melting pot" we should only have one lets say "Korinaly Village". I do believe in individuality, we should all be able to let people know where we came from, if we want to call america diverse we cant belittle ANY groups of people. None. Gays, African Americans, Islamic, or even Latinos. Different ingredients in melting pots mix cohesively, just like we must do as people of the same nation. Instead maybe we should change to motto to this : American A big pot, with the heat turned off. (so nothign mixes together).
2 comments:
Josh,
I like your metaphor! Have you ever heard of the "tossed salad" model as an alternative to the melting pot?
Check out this short article.
Mr. Bolos,
that article is exatly what i was tring to say in my post. Almost word for word perfect. Im in awe at that metaphor it works so well.
To even expand further on it, if the North Shore a part of a tomato, than our tomato dident get cut up limiting our connectivity with other ingredients.
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