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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. Cultural pluralism - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] His 1915 essay in The Nation, titled "Democracy versus the Melting Pot", was written as an argument against the concept of the 'Americanization' of European immigrants. [9] He coined the term cultural pluralism, itself, in 1924 through his Culture and Democracy in the United States. [10]

  4. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Henry Pratt Fairchild associates American assimilation with Americanization or the "melting pot" theory. Some scholars also believed that assimilation and acculturation were synonymous. According to a common point of view, assimilation is a "process of interpretation and fusion" from another group or person.

  5. Society of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has often been thought of as a melting pot, but recent developments tend towards cultural diversity, pluralism, and the image of a salad bowl rather than a melting pot. [2] [3] Due to the extent of American culture there are many integrated but unique social subcultures within the United States.

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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. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.

  7. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    The melting pot theory implied that each individual immigrant, and each group of immigrants, assimilated into American society at their own pace. This is different from multiculturalism as it is defined above, which does not include complete assimilation and integration. [ 106 ]

  8. Israel Zangwill - Wikipedia

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    The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, [11] a success in the United States in 1909–10. The theatrical work explored the themes of ethnic tensions and the idea of cultural assimilation in early 20th-century America.

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