Essays on 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 ...

Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of the similarities and differences between cultures and how human’s interact with one another. The fundamental processes of human behavior are developed and shaped by culture. If we use America as an example, it has been described globally as a melting pot of cultures. There are numerous ethnic groups in the United States. As culture, race, ethnicity and class come together a new multi-cultural generation is being formed. People in different cultures have a different view on life because they live very different lives. Americans have a unique heritage because the majority ...

Assimilation

Assimilation is a term which is so much associated with immigration. Its significance is not only felt in today’s immigrant communities but also throughout the history of the US. Previously, the term was used to mean a biological process carried out by the body used in the conversion of food into a substance which can be absorbed in digestion. However, the use of the term in today’s world as a physiological process has been eclipsed as a result of its greater social significance. Its broad use is evident by the many definitions it carries. Some sources define ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Historically, one of the issues that the United States has been accused of is having a lack of cultural identity that extends beyond the hamburger. Actually, the irony in that sentence is that the hamburger is not even American, which further proves this argument. What these two sentences are attempting to say is that there is very little that the United States does have compared to nations in Europe and other parts of the world that have longer histories that the Untied States does. This is not to say that the United States will not develop this over time; ...

The United States has a traumatic and brutal past in relation to African Americans. This sad legacy of slavery, it would be accurate to say, translates into many diverse fields even though litigation and other institutions keep it check. This being the case, the performance industry has not been the African American’s best friend culminating in black face and other fraught phenomena. However, in the twentieth century, or rather, the second half of the twentieth century has embraced diversity in an unprecedented way. This trend is what gives rise to a renaissance of artists stemming from diverse backgrounds, ...

America is the home to a number of cultures, race, and languages. On a daily basis one can hear Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and a variety of Caribbean dialects in the workplace, schools, homes and the neighborhoods. The truth is that the United States is the “melting pot” for a number of immigrants who bring different cultural and linguistic framework to the language that is spoken in the United States. Each cultural group brings new variations to the language and culture of the United States and has created a "bi-nationalism" concept. For some critics, the United States is no longer ...

The policy of multiculturalism, national identity and the fight against racism is extremely relevant today. Which theory to stick – fusion of many cultures into one, or preserving the cultural identity of each nation and race – that is the question that is now concerned by not only politicians but also by ordinary people. It can be said that it is mainly addressed to the people who face the representatives of different cultures in everyday life. Therefore, it is important to understand how the policy of multiculturalism has developed in countries such as Canada and the US as it is in ...

Muller, the author of The new world reader: Thinking and writing about the global community, describes the US as a melting pot for all cultures and ethnicities around the world. Given that the US can be considered a multinational society, most ethnicities have migrated and settled in the country (Muller, 2014, p.35). America is considered as one of the flourishing economies that attract many foreigners to the country in that the country has high standards of living. Globalization has contributed to the US assimilating other cultures and ethnicities in their day to day lives. For example the Hispanics and Asians have ...

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 ...

Rhetorical propaganda can almost hypnotize listeners; the danger is that the techniques convince people to agree with very shaky theories. The essay Passmore uses many of the tricky devices to hook white listeners to believing she is speaking the truth. This essay discusses these devices by giving examples and showing how to recognize them. In the very first two sentences the author uses a strategy that has been working very well in the United States for years. She tells her white listeners that they are a group that faces a frightening future because they are afraid. Fear is a very persuasive emotional ...

“Guilt by Association is not the American way!” stated Senator Durbin invoking that “We should all agree that it is wrong to blame an entire community for the wrongdoing of a few” (Fox News). The senator Dick Durban opened his first-ever hearing of the Civil Rights for American-Muslims address in the history of the United States. Durban is the 47th Senator of United States elected from the State of Illinois on November 5, 1996 and a Democrat from Springfield. He was reelected in 2002 and then in 2008. In the journey of a successful political career, Senator Durbin suddenly risked his career ...

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Introduction

Rapid changes in the way we communicate across the world have brought about significant changes in the last two decades. As an individual or as a professional, one can see and experience the effect of this globalization in our lives everywhere. Food, culture, art and fashion provide outlets for the reflection of a variety of cultures in a single setting. As a fashion designer, one has to be conscious of these influences that emanate from all parts of the world. As the world grows closer together, cultural influences from one or more parts of the world are likely to make an ...

Argentina is a country that is rich in Immigrants from all angles of life. For five decades, it has been on the verge of receiving foreign settlements and had over 20% of immigrants in its total population. As a result, the nation looks at itself as an ethnically diverse nation, second to the United States. It is the ultimate melting pot of the Spanish world and showcases its national identity through citizenship, as opposed to ethnicity like other countries around it. The immigrants in the country are not referred to as ethnic groups, as in countries such as the USA, Brazil ...

Thanks to the voluminous information about how the United States became a melting pot of cultural diversity, I have come to appreciate the different ethnicities around me (Jacoby, 2009). The USA is appreciative of diversity and embraces all the different cultures of individuals who form the national heritage of what the country is today. I have learned that all cultures contribute to the identity and pride of our country, which would not, even in the slightest degree, be the same had they been missing. Every community contributed to the economic, political and social sphere of what makes the USA a powerhouse. ...

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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 ...

In recent years, the increase in immigrants to the United States increased tremendously and undoubtedly has an impact on the nation’s society and the economy. However, the process of migration has a tremendous impact on the extinction of the cultures of the migrants. Children, in particular, face psychological challenges as they try to adapt to the changes in the culture. Nevertheless, the children adjust eventually. The adults on the other find it difficult to adjust as the shift in cultural practices and beliefs cause severe psychological and social problems for these individuals as they attempt to let go of ...

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 Qatar National Day is a public holiday celebrated annually on the 18th of December. This special day also marks the 1878 historical date when Sheikh Jassim Al Thani marshaled the peninsula’s tribes into unity. However, the Qatar National day does not do signify the birth of an independent nation but serves as a constant reminder of the time when the concept of a Qatar people came into being. It is aimed at maintaining an understanding and appreciation of Qatar's heritage, and to foster pride among Qatar’s. Established by Emiri decree in 2007, the National Day celebrations are getting better ...

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 population of Spanish speakers in America is growing, increasingly interacting with English-speaking populations to contribute to the expanding cultural melting pot of this country. Hybrid languages often result from this clash of cultures, and one that is rising in prominence and usage is ‘Spanglish’, a combination of Spanish and English that is being found increasingly in different Hispanic American communities (Alvarez 483). Because of the greater exposure Latin-American writers and people are receiving through popular culture and media, Spanglish is becoming more well known all throughout America (Morales 2002). As this hybrid language grows in usage, people wonder if ...

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Introduction Upon the anthropological evolution, gender was a key concept within the actual restraint of anthropology. This research of evolution of gender roles is significant simply due to the post-colonial impact in history. Hence, sex and gender outlines differently within anthropology, the previous as grounded in professed natural changes in that the latter as the cultural productions perceived, performed, and assumed inside the general public, that of which is often based on those perceived genetic dissimilarities . During the 20th century, the rise of sociocultural anthropology, the connotation and impact of gender to the discipline has shifted in some of ...

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Culture when broadly applied is a term that can be used to describe virtually all avenues and aspects of human life. In his textbook Cultural Anthropology, Richley H. Crapo defines it as “a learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living around which a group of people organize their lives; a way of life of particular society” (Crapo, 2013). Perhaps that most astounding thing about humankind’s way of life is the vast diversity in culture that emerges in different groups of people. The differences in culture come from a variety of factors and one of the most important is geography. American culture ...

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 ...

Ethnocentrism is basically the judging of another culture by the standards of one’s own culture. This may mean that one can observe another culture in an insular manner and this means that there are negative connotations to the term. It may mean that one does not appreciate another culture especially in musical or art terms and that is obviously detrimental to one’s artistic success. I have experienced ethnocentrism in various ways. A typical example would be the influx of African culture through the phenomenon of immigration and a negative view of this. I decided to judge the ...

Essay on Management

- The United States has been called a "Melting Pot". Define Melting Pot. Is the United States really a "Melting Pot" of Nations? Or is it something else? The metaphor of melting pot or crucible appeared in 18-19th centuries or even a little bit earlier when the mass colonization of the United States began. This concept describes the ideals of immigrants from different countries and nations. For them is was an image of perfect society when people from parts of the world, representatives of different heterogeneous cultures create a homogeneous society exactly the same as different substance melt inside the pot to ...

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.

Cited Passage

“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 ...

Introduction – a novel for all seasons

This is a classic novel set in 1970’s England in the context of the Bangladeshi community and how this is integrated up to a point with English society. Identity is a crucial issue throughout the novel and for example when the novel starts we observe Archie a 47 year old man whose wife walked out on him attempting to gas himself in his car due to the fact that his disturbed Italian wife walked out on him. Here we have the identity of Archie who could be seen as a failed persona but who has also had his hopes and dreams shattered so ...

New In America.

The 1900s saw the advent of mass migration from Europe to America. Every day, Ellis Island, in New York, would be inundated with hundreds of migrants seeking a higher quality of life in the United States of America. This new country posed fantastic opportunities to gain a fresh start and hundreds tried to gain permission every day. This fascination began when between 1880 and 1890, 5.3 million immigrants had come to America’s shores; another 3.7 million arrived between 1890 and 1900: “By 1900, America’s population was about 76 million, double what it had been just thirty years earlier, and ...

Introduction

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 ...