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  2. Melting pot - Wikipedia

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    The image of the United States as a melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot.. A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural ...

  3. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    The idea of the melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention. [105] The melting pot theory implied that each individual immigrant, and each group of immigrants, assimilated into American society at their own pace.

  4. List of political metaphors - Wikipedia

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    melting pot: a society in which all outsiders assimilate to one social norm. salad bowl: a society in which cultural groups retain their unique attributes (opposite of melting pot theory). spin (public relations): a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation.

  5. Cultural mosaic - Wikipedia

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    Multi-lingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Pannonian Rusyn. "Cultural mosaic" (French: "la mosaïque culturelle") is the mix of ethnic groups, languages, and cultures that coexist within society.

  6. The Abundance Agenda Promises Everything to Everyone ... - AOL

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    The policy implications of the metaphor are clear. ... "It is easier to have a melting pot if it is a growing pot," Sperling wrote ... The inherent inefficiencies of government will mean that its ...

  7. RI's melting pot: 100 years of shifting demographics ... - AOL

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    Discover the rich tapestry of RI's melting pot history as we delve into a century of diverse stories hidden within dual addresses on Potters Ave.

  8. Salad bowl (cultural idea) - Wikipedia

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    Various distinct components can combine to make a salad.. A salad bowl or tossed salad is a metaphor for the way an intercultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities, contrasting with a melting pot, which emphasizes the combination of the parts into a single whole.

  9. Talk:Melting pot - Wikipedia

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    The "melting pot" metaphor implies both a melting of cultures and intermarriage of ethnicities, yet cultural assimilation or acculturation can also occur without intermarriage. Thus African-Americans are fully culturally integrated into American culture and institutions.