The American Melting Pot is a Really a Stew

The United States is a country mainly assimilated to immigrants, its history goes back more than 200 years ago. Or at least it was once. Today, Americans are Americans and their houses retain their cultural identity. The United States is a country where multiculturalism and ethnicity are thrown at will, yet it is still the whole. The word salad bowl seems to be inappropriate. We were once considered crucibles, a mixture of multicultural and American racial. We are American, the place of birth is irrelevant. Because I am in the US, this is our culture.

Assimilation never means "crucible", and everyone "melted" into a homogeneous "America" ​​stew. As political scientist Peter Skerri wrote, "assimilation" means "migrants adapt and change in various fields, meaning they will reject migrants in the past (see parents' mother tongue To forget English and to speak English) and other aspects of their heritage (ethnic cuisine, specific religious festivals, family tradition from the motherland) "This is a generational generation It includes a fair ambiguity. The sense of loss of tradition and spiritual exile is combined with the advantage of becoming a middle class of the United States. Each negotiation has two aspects.

It is the real "crucible" of American politics, bringing delicious and volumeful stew. The weak diversification of the current American leftist is not "weak tea" but people who have diverse backgrounds are necessary to dilute the party's agenda and the deep belief in concrete ideology. It has some nutrients and weak medicinal value, but it is ultimately unsatisfactory. It is also not the current "spicy pepper" of American rights - a bold but very simple mixture of only a few ingredients. People who disagree and "do not like me" do not simply "worry". This is a powerful and spicy national populism. It is far from the somewhat complicated version of the previous conservative tradition.

Americans sometimes feel that our cultural diversity is very painfully conscious. We used to call a multilingual country "crucible", but today we do not use much of the assimilation metaphor such as "assimilation simmering" or "throwing salad". But even how good or bad (we still do not agree with the proper cultural method), we made amazing changes in the geographical context and its associated beliefs and behavior patterns. Of course, it all started in the colonial era. In a broader sense it started faster and the first human beings adventured through a crossover between Northeast Asia and the northwestern part of the United States. Prior to the last ice ages, the diversity of mankind necessarily accompanied a wide range of immigrants that reached thousands of years later; when the "old world" people first reached the eastern coastal region in the 16th century, the United States Broad culture already owned - institutions, customs, beliefs that reflect and shape who we are.