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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 49 |
| AUTHOR: | Carl N. Degler (1921– ) |
| QUOTATION: | The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | CARL N. DEGLER, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, rev. ed., chapter 10, section 4, p. 296 (1970). |
| SUBJECTS: | America |
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