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Re: America; Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?
With melting pot, I think about intermarriage between ethnicities, religions, cultures - blending. When I learned about/studied the melting pot, I always thought of it as a delicious stew filled with mysterious and delightful aromas.
The salad bowl is along the lines that KoKo Ed says, retaining the cultures, the communities in tact, or attempting to. We are learning that when we educate ourselves regarding the differences, we can find respect and often, common ground between each other.
Both of these are occurring here in the U.S. and in countries around the world continually.
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Last edited by JaneYoung : 03-12-2006 at 20:54.
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