...America has always brought hope to different ethnic groups across the world. For some, it may mean freedom of religion, freedom of speech, to follow the American dream, or something else. Since people are in search of something different, a lot of people move to America to find that something they are looking for because of this America has been nicknamed the Melting Pot of the World. Since people all around the world has moved to America, there a lot of different languages, cultures, and dialects. Instead of making fun of the dialects, I embrace them. I love learning about different ways of how people speak. I have learned that just because people don’t talk just like me; doesn’t make any of us less smart or dumb. There are certain times that one should talk formal and times where one can talk informally. I have learned that when one group of people stops talking to each other than other dialects or even languages can be and most likely will be formed. In General American English words can contract, but in AAVE they just dropped some words out. I have learned a lot about different and dialects; I will always think twice when I go to judge someone for speaking differently, after all there is always two sides of a story or in this case language....
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...America the Melting Pot? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (“Statue of Liberty National Monument”). Is the United States of America actually living by the words embedded in the Statue of Liberty? The quote on the Statue of Liberty was written by a Jewish immigrant, Emma Lazarus (“Statue of Liberty National Monument”). The quote represents that America is a sanctuary for people in need, and it prides itself on being a melting pot. In the world today refugees are desperately trying to escape from war zones, or poverty in third world countries; yet, many people are against allowing them access to the United States. Twisted words and ideas have led to the fears associated with refugees; however, if the...
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...Assignment 3 – Ragtime Introduction The novel Ragtime takes place in America in the early 1900's. It illustrates several life stories and destinies all woven together in different ways. Most of the characters in the novel are pure fictitious but some historical men and women from the era are featured. We get to met Houdini, the biggest illusionists of his time, JP Morgan, one of the wealthiest men in America, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and Emma Goldman, an anarchist and political activist. One of the main characters, and the main focus of this analysis is the Latvian, Jewish immigrant referred to as Tateh. We follow Tateh and his daughter Sha's progression through the different stages of becoming assimilated in the American melting pot that is the American culture. Main Body Tateh and his family arrived to America in the beginning of the nineteenth century. This was a time in history when immigrants, mostly europeans were flowing into New York. Between 1901 and 1910 as many as 8.8 million people arrived from overseas (Duncan and Goddard, 2009:66) all stepping of the boat filled with dreams and hopes of a better life in “the land of opportunity”. The reality in New York was different. The streets were dirty, crime was increasing along with the growing population and assimilation was not easy. “The officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families... “They were despised by New Yorkers. They were filthy...
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...people are divided they lack the strength to overcome governmental intrusion into their personal lives. So long as “we the people” are divided we will continue to see attacks on various groups of people, rather than the peace that unity can bring. • Have you learned something new about your own racial, ethnic, or cultural history? Mostly everything I read about my culture was a re inforcement of what I already thought , I did learn a lot about my husbands race, (African American) and our bi racial children and how, I am glad to know that America is moving forward in acceptance of Diversity and hopefully will continue to learn and embrace each others culture. • Trends in immigration will continue to shape the demographics of the United States. What will the U.S. population look like in the year 2050? Why do you think so? The United States in the year 2050 will be more of the melting pot, often referred to in our society. We have many from various races now, but in the future that number will be far larger. It is noted by Kotter, “From 2000 to 2050, the U.S. will add another 100 million to its...
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...Fondue or Salad? American became known as the “Melting Pot” when people from different countries, having different cultures, languages and religions blend together into their new homeland. ("Credo", 2013) in the early 1900. Since that time the “melting pot” seems to have turned into a “salad bowl.” (“Cultural Savvy,” 2011) Now America is becoming a salad bowl culture. With the melting pot title, every culture immigrating to America blended into one culture. Since then, we have been receiving people from countries that have never been part of the melting pot before. We are now beginning to take on the flavor of a salad. When you have a salad, each ingredient maintains its own distinct flavor apart from each other ingredient. With this type of culture, we have become a nation that is no longer blended as one culture. The reason for this dramatic change in the culture of America is that people relocating to America are not as willing to adapt, and those already here are not as accepting as they once were. Even though out of many one, remains our country’s motto, multiculturalism does not work because one culture is not accepting of another and new cultures do not want to change and adapt. For many years, people who immigrated to America were mostly of European heritage. These immigrants wanted to become part of the “melting pot” culture. When these immigrants came to America, one would have thought that the first thing they did was to begin to learn the English language...
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...The American experience has changed year after year and is difficult culture to live in no matter what race you are. America can be known as the land of the free and of opportunity when ironically the history of America has done everything but give the people freedom and opportunity. From slavery, internment camps, and the civil rights violations America has never been able to accept everyone and their views. In the book The Buddha in the Attic written by Julie Otsuka, the story shows exactly the misunderstanding of America and what is like to have everything, but freedom and opportunity. Japanese women heading over to America to start a new lifestyle and hope for the best of opportunity the women are piled up in a mix of emotion from excitement to nervousness. The women are quickly introduced to the dark and nasty melting pot theory of immigration into America. The theory of the melting pot in America was to create diversity and have a mixture of culture all brought into one and help create the new American people. The melting pot would be accepting of the people of all races...
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...DEFINATION OF RACE Name of Student Institution affiliation DEFINATION OF RACE Social constructionism relates to the socially create nature of social life. Social constructionism is therefore created by a group within a society by happens due to the fact that the society encourages and supports it. Social constructionism can therefore be considered as a social norm and it continues to be relevant as long as people put timeinto practising it and talk about it.A race can best be described as a group of people who are perceived to some physical characteristics which are quite distinctive; which mainly include skin colour and facial structure. These two distinctive racial characteristics are perceived to be inherited biologically.This paper, therefore, aims to highlight on the view of race as a social construction. The human race is not only dependent on the distinct physical attributes and skin colour but alsoreligion, language and nationality play a significant role in distinguishing race in human beings. In most cases race is used as an ethnic intensifier where it often try to justify or exploit one one group over the other.In the American society, the idea of race seems to be so fixed that it seems impossible for the society to take up an open-minded approach when challenging this idea.In the American society, race is perceived as a discrete scheme of classification. Therefore, it is mostly considered as a social construction. On the other hand in these society race...
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...world. Diversity is valued because it helps to encourage growth, personal and professional (Schaefer, 2012). The important thing to learn is that as a society we can remember that it’s not about Black, White, Asian, Hispanic or Latino ethnicities but constantly focused on being one with my brothers or my sisters. We could use these words in our everyday lives to face any situation at hand (Kolb 2009). At the end of the day it’s about all our differences, melting into one pot and being stirred only to make a change. “The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace; one generation, a single year even—transforms the English, German, the Irish emigrant into an American. Uniform institutions, ideas, language, the influence of the majority, bring us in similar complexion; the individuality of the immigrant, almost even his traits of race and religion, fuse down in the democratic alembic like chips of brass thrown into the melting pot” (Munson-Coan, T). This article though written in 1875 says a significant amount about America. I think by 2050 the U.S. population will be going strong (www.newgeography.com) In the varying cultures, there are some that believe in ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is one of the...
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...Running head: A Checkered Past: America’s Melting Pot A Checkered Past: America’s Melting Pot Abstract According to Sociology.about.com a melting pot, “is a concept referring to a heterogeneous society becoming homogenous with the different element “melting together” into a harmonious whole with a common culture” (Crossman, 2015). The issue with the notion of viewing society as a “melting pot,” is that the viewpoint fails to recognize the importance of preserving cultural difference within a society. Within a “melting pot,” there is a right and a wrong, with those going against the cultural norms being wrong. For example, in various African nations polygamy is a cultural norm, as it was once viewed as a sure way to build a successful empire. Fast-forward to today’s society where many Africans come to the United States to try and provide a better life for their families. However, polygamous living is strictly banned in the United States, as it is in most westernized societies. Often, individuals are forced to give up ties to native cultures in order to fit into a particular society. This is exactly the case in The Melting Pot, a play by Israel Zangwill. After surviving a pogrom, an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group David Quizano, one of the plays key characters, makes the tough decision to break his ties to Judaism for the sake of becoming American. This paper will examine Zangwill’s 1908 play and how transitioning into a society can lead to a loss of cultural...
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...Khyati Joshi’s “Multiculturalism”, readers receive knowledge on the history of how America became socially diverse. America being referred to as a melting pot is received as a positive thing. We accept different people’s cultures, heritages, and traditions and become one society. While reading this I felt great, because of how far America has come with diversity and acceptance. Today, people of all races can go to school and develop an education of their choosing. Years ago this was not the case, schools were opened up for people of certain races. These people were not welcomed at the other schools available because of the color of their skin. It is sad to think of a world that treated people so poorly because they were not considered “normal”...
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...The melting pot is a mixture of people from different culture and ethnicity together by assimilation and acculturation to one culture which is the main one. According Israel Zangwill play to The melting pot started in the used around 1908 when the play opened in Washington, the United States absorbed the largest influx of immigrant in its story coming from Europe , such as : Irish , Germans followed by Italians and east Europeans . The United had 18 million immigrants between 1890 and 1920. The Immigrants of today are not coming from Europeans countries anymore, but from developing world countries like Asia and South America. The melting pot is due to the mixture of different race and ethnicity. The melting pot is normally caused by the desire of people of other ethnicity and race for a better life, most ethnicity and race in America want to leave the America dream. The first migration in the United was due to high unemployment, growing labor unrest, political corruption, religious persecution, and political turmoil. I really don’t think America is a melt pot society because , a lot of recent immigrants have come from different part of the world such as : south , Asia , Africa . All these people have a different culture , and most of them would not leave their culture to assimilate to the American culture , but they will assimilate to the law they will allow them to benefit from the opportunities that America is offering. Immigrant children most likely assimilate...
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...Melting Pot The Modern Melting Pot? The Modern Melting Pot? The concept of a melting pot is the theory that anything put in will become blended and yields a result of something entirely new. This theory idealistically explains how the United States is perceived to be the Melting Pot of the World. This essay will address the concept of the modern Melting Pot and examine ways the idealistic vision of Melting Pot assimilation has been achieved through the development of American society as well as the limitations of this theory. “No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible; I tell you he will be the fusion of all races perhaps the coming superman” (Zangwill n.d.). The Modern Melting Pot is a metaphor for cultural assimilation. It is the anticipation of a diverse society becoming more harmonious, where the elements of all cultures melt together to form a society that is released from animosity and cultural divisions, one with a more common culture. The term Melting Pot refers to the belief that societies in America that were formed by immigrant cultures, ethnic groups and religions will through...
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...The threat America’s way of life is a quite questionable context to define. What I see here is a Catch 22, where we either allow immigrants and that changes America, or we don’t allow immigrants and that changes America. As John Isbister said, “The essence of American life is that it is composed of different groups, different cultures, races, religions, attitudes, folkways and ideologies, differences that give the country its distinctiveness. Current im-migration is sure to change the mixture, but change is not new; the cultural mixture of America has been changing continuously.” There is no auto defined definition to the American way of life, it is always changing whether we want it to or not. As Charon mentions, “Change occurs in every social organization, and it is ongoing and inevitable”. However, I do see this threat to be almost negligible, our biggest problem is within the racial conflictions of society adapting to a change. America has always been seen as a melting pot of cultures; however the melting pot concept is too vague to define. A melting pot means the society confirms to a new identity, however this is not such the case. The traditions are all varying and different outlooks still; we are not some culture defined as a mix of one pot, but rather a mix of many other pots. This correlates to Charon’s idea of the individual making a difference, “Attempts to influence society are countered by the power of long-standing social patterns that are normally defended by...
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...American History America did not just come up from the ground. In 1815 there were only 8,4 million people and compared to today (with an approximately population of 316 million people) 8,4 is not that much. But if we were to study the whole of American history, we should go way further back than 1815. Life in the United States: The American lifestyle is way different than others, especially Scandinavians. And even though you cannot compare all the states in the USA to each other, they share a common bond. It is a 5 days drive from New York to Los Angeles, if you stopped only for gas, food and to sleep. And almost all Americans come from foreign countries – or their ancestors did. A British writer named Israel Zangwill wrote in a play, the following: As he used the term “Melting-pot” for USA it was utterly discussed whether it was positive or an insult, but it depends on the matter of view. Maybe the people did not want to be compared to each other like that, as they all had different cultures. The immigration laws began to change in 1965, so the yearly immigration number rose severely. It rose with a steady of 300.000 in the end of the 1960s, but the rate grew to more than a million per year, approximately, as they reached the 1990s. The USA was admitting more immigrants that all the other industrialized countries combined. Consequently they made laws and restrictions, which made the rate drop to a half million each year, approximately. Therefore the Americans...
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...Al Johnson LED 608 September 7, 2010 Professor Peters Reaping the Benefits of Effectively Utilizing and Managing a Diverse Workforce Are organizations effectively utilizing the knowledge, skills and abilities of a culturally diverse workforce in corporate America? In 1908 playwright Israel Zangwill described America as “God’s crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming.” Indeed, throughout its history the United States has been a haven for millions of the world’s immigrants seeking refuge from famine, tyranny, religious oppression and civil strife. For male immigrants of white European ancestry, entering mainstream American society has been relative easy and successful. For women and other ethnic immigrants, penetrating American society has been more difficult and in some cases near impossible. There have been several national efforts to improve the lot of immigrants and bring them closer to mainstream America. The “Americanization” movement of World War I, for example, was an attempt post-Civil War movement for racial freedom, women’s suffrage during the Progressive Era, and the Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century were major crusades to improve the rights of women and minorities and move them into a society traditionally dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males. Although the rights and standing of minorities have improved, efforts to assimilate them continue as well as the struggle to eliminate discrimination...
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