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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. Randolph Bourne - Wikipedia

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    In this article, Bourne rejects the melting-pot theory and does not see immigrants assimilating easily to another culture. [6]: 248 Bourne's view of nationality was related to the connection between a person and their "spiritual country", [7] that is, their culture. He argued that people would most often hold tightly to the literature and ...

  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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    Some pundits, such as The Globe and Mail ' s Jeffrey Simpson and Carleton University journalism professor Andrew Cohen, have argued that the entire melting pot/mosaic dynamic is largely an imagined concept and that there remains little measurable evidence that American or Canadian immigrants as collective groups can be proven to be more or less ...

  6. 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 .

  7. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    This is the origin of cultural amalgamation. It is the ideological equivalent of the melting pot theory. [1] The term cultural amalgamation is often used in studies on post–civil rights era in the United States and contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism.

  8. 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. [ 105 ]

  9. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    In a melting pot society, in which a harmonious and homogenous culture is promoted, assimilation is the endorsed acculturation strategy. In segregationist societies, in which humans are separated into racial, ethnic and/or religious groups in daily life, a separation acculturation strategy is endorsed.