Essays on The Melting Pot

The model of assimilation refers to a group of people integrating into a new culture assimilating its host's cultural elements such as language and customs, losing some or almost all of its original cultural elements. An example of this model is the case of Argentina which has open immigration policies and received a growing number of Chinese. These integrated in such a way that they have assimilated their hosting language, Spanish and the way of Argentinian living, doing business, and social life. The first generation of immigrants continues speaking their language. However, they left behind many of their cultural ...

Internalization of Oppression

Reading this article made me feel sick to think of how women suffered with binding of their feet, burning alive, and submitting to vaginal mutilation. I felt glad to live in a society that does not believe in any of these practices. I am surprised by the internalization of oppression. If I was a widow and my husband’s family wanted me to be burned alive with my husband’s corpse, I would run as far and as fast as I could. Hopefully, I would not have married into such a belief in the first place. I suppose certain things are ...

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Shobbit Shabhara’s case is not an isolated scenario. In fact, in most terror activities performed by individuals in the U.S., a similar pattern has been observed not only in the U.S. but in other parts of Europe where diverse cultures are common. The story of the Boston bombing where a pair of Chechen brothers from Dagestan developed a passion for terrorism after living in America for more than 10 years is just one example of how some individuals can be hateful even though the country has accepted them without hesitation. The United States was traditionally considered by social scientists ...

How women are treated under the melting pot.

The first article written by Paula Gunn Allen tries to show how the modern American Indian women struggle in the United States. “Modern American Indian women, like their non-Indian sisters, are deeply engaged in the struggle to redefine themselves” (Allen 1). They are said to have to endure with the tribal definitions of women with the industrial and the post-industrial non-Indian women definitions. This shows that they are not able to express their selves as their traditions require, but are forced to dwell on what the new traditions that surround them say. Therefore, this comes as a struggle by trying ...

The newest metaphor for how one views the diversity of American society could be the National League Football fans. For years the metaphor for that diversity was the classic melting pot, where individual components are molded into one entity. The melting pot metaphor gradually gave way to the salad bowl metaphor, where individual components were mixed together, but retained their individual composition. Just as the melting pot metaphor eventually ran its course, I believe the salad bowl metaphor is near its end. The pieces in the salad bowl exist together in harmony. Tomatoes touch lettuce which touches carrots ...

The early 20th Century’s perception toward the effect of unifying people of different whereabouts is hostile. Though part of this defensiveness is rooted in the love of the country, it defends with predetermined exceptions. Not all theorists of immigration efforts are withdrawn from a successful union. Though America still stands as nation built by natives and the naturalized, few thought it possible a hundred years ago. British playwright Israel Zangwill crafted a play called The Melting Pot (1916) where, with esteem and passion, principal characters enjoy the concept of amalgamated people. There is pride in the act, and it is ...

Article Summary

In his speech, Shaub discusses the four developmental phases of the acculturation process of immigrants in America. In particular, Shaub discusses how some immigrants want to be bicultural, that is, to retain their original personality while developing an American one. Shaub further discuss how culture and religion can influence the bi-culturality of Muslims.

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“Imagine groups of related individuals living together in primitive conditions but still developing some kind of coherent culture. In many cases there would come a day when the tribe had to move---perhaps the food ran out or there was some natural calamity. For whatever reason groups often ...

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In their publication (Jean Louis & Frederic Hitzel) indicates that a vast pan-Islamic state of the Turks started its expansion in the small Turkish emirate location within the boundaries of the present republic of Turkey. It extended to North Africa, some part of Middle East and southeast Europe. It had also gained temporal authority over secluded overseas lands in the mode declarations paying of allegiance to the Sultan and Caliph. The publication further indicates that the empire was the pivot of interactions connecting the Eastern and the Western world for six centuries. This Ottoman Empire was an Islamic successor to ...