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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can anyone think of a metaphor to describe the diversity in America??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know this isn't a math question but the other section is empty

OpenStudy (anonymous):

lol

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I didn't come up with this but The Melting Pot Metaphor Perhaps the oldest metaphor for describing multiple cultures in the United States is the melting pot. America, according to this image, is like a huge crucible, a container that can withstand extremely high temperatures and can therefore be used to melt, mix, and ultimately fuse together metals or other substances. This image as the dominant way to represent the ideal blending of cultural groups at a time when the hardened steel that was forged in the great blast furnaces of Pittsburgh helped to make the United States into an industrial power. According to this view, immigrants from many cultures came to the United States to work, live, mix, and blend together into one great assimilated culture that is stronger and better than the unique individual cultures of which it is composed. Some argue that as dynamic as the melting pot metaphor has been in the United States, it has never been an accurate description. The tendency for diverse cultures to melt together and assimilate their unique heritages into a single cultural entity has never really existed. Rather the many cultural groups within the United States have continuously adapted to one another as they accommodated and perhaps adopted some of the practices and preferences of other groups while maintaining their own unique and distinctive heritages.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Ok thanks @rock913335

OpenStudy (anonymous):

welcome

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