America As A Melting Pot Of The World

During Roosevelt’s time in office, he strengthened the United States’ ties to countries around the world. T.R. was a foreign-policy activist. He involved himself in the relations between the Dominican Republic and the European nations that the country owed money to. The president was afraid that European powers would start to collect their money by using force and Roosevelt didn’t want that to happen in Latin America. He asserted the United States’ power in the Western hemisphere by creating what is known as the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ in 1904. This corollary states that “although the United States had not territorial ambitions in this hemisphere, cases of “chronic wrongdoing” on the part of a Latin American country that might invite occupation by a European

The United States of America used to be known as the world’s largest melting pot. Meaning many different ethnicities and backgrounds coming and living with one another, and sharing each other’s culture. This can also be defined as assimilation. The United States of America has slowly drifted away from assimilation to isolating those who are different and diverse.

Most of the immigrants leave their home country and migrate to the United States because they can live in freedom, practice their religion and make the most out of their life (Arizaga 2006).

9. Immigrants choose to migrate to the United States for many reasons such as poverty or blight. Some of these immigrants were forced out of their homes while others simply felt attracted to America for its ideas and freedoms. However, not all immigrants were welcomed like the Irish who held no crafting skills or any skill at all.

The changing environments throughout the ages have caused the movement of thousands of families out of their homelands. Whether forced to make such decisions or doing so by their own desires, all immigrants have had to survive the physical and psychological challenges encountered along the way. To speak about the experiences of all these different people using the same ideas and examples would be quite inaccurate. They all, however, had to live through similar situations and deal with similar problems. Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found only hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed.

First, immigrants move to the united states to get a better opportunity of jobs. The job opportunities being more abundant in America. Immigrants come to America is for better job opportunities and to make more money. In particular, young people, are leaving poorer parts of the world in search of job opportunities in the richer part of the world. For example, in the TED TALK” My Immigration Story” by Tan Le, Le tells the story of the women of her family who escaped the communist rule in Vietnam. Her story is about two person lives in two different worlds the first one is immigrant’s life and the other is the world she found herself in. her mother moves to have a better

So as we talked about with the politics of progressivism with the government changing laws and regulating the economy. Giving women the right to vote, and getting rid of child labor and ect. Around this time, there was an increasing belief that America should go overseas to help other countries out with their problems. Giving knowledge on free markets and democracy, but reality was that Americans were invading to build an American empire. Teddy Roosevelt was making a big American navy, this trade overseas was getting bigger. Getting from the atlantic to the pacific, he didn't really want to go back and forth all the way to the bottom of South America every time. He wanted to go through the Panama province of Columbia, so he asked if he could

The United States of America is considered a melting pot of heritages and nationalities from all around the world. There is no official language, and no one culture all citizens abide by. Despite the fact that everyone in this country is different from one another, there is still a constant uniform citizen that has a more favorable position. This citizen is white, English-speaking, and somehow always in the front of the public sphere. In the recent years, there has been an increasingly dominant Latino presence in America. Their strength in numbers challenges there being a poster American citizen, and that that citizen will remain white. When working to assimilate to America’s “culture,” Lations seem to believe that there is one America, within which people speak a singular language and experience one culture. The pressure to assimilate stems from the white citizens of the country feeling threatened when there is a new culture and language, which they do not understand. As a result they feel personally threatened by the people who can speak both Spanish and English, and their response response involves marginalization and the obvious exclusion of Latino groups in the United States. There is a phenomenon, cultural citizenship, where Latinos perform their cultural practices to stretch their identity into the states, and practice their right to be authentic members of their community.

flee from their birth homes, wishing for a better life. Many parents seek to find a life for their

Still not all immigrants have the same reasons, some immigrants run way because of fear due to political or economic raisons, countries that are more developed and more advanced into technology and opportunities. Other raisons that some persons immigrate are for the future of their children, more futuristic perspective. They immigrate to give more opportunities to their children to obtain better lives or being in a better environment.

Hello, Isabella! I agree with you; America is a melting pot of cultures because of the waves of immigrants who came here and brought their own cultures, and tradition, and I thought it’s wonderful to see people from different backgrounds come together in one land! Because America is known for its vocation of humanity, people from various parts of the world are drawn to become part of this country. This was the purpose of the Coca-Cola's advertisement, at least in my opinion, to bring all the divergent cultures together through a commonly shared human purpose. To remind people that coming from different racial backgrounds and living in America does not mean that one must surrender his or her values, traditions, and identity. That regardless

The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds

The United States is commonly know as a melting pot of nations, in which people from around the world have emigrated to form a homogeneous yet varied culture. Although we come from different ethnic groups, we are usually bound together through our common English language. This becomes an issue, however, when immigrants are not familiar with English and American culture, and instead attempt to keep their own heritage alive. They are often torn between identities through language, the one they speak at home which they are familiar with, and the one they must adhere to in public. This often leads to struggle and conflict on both sides, dealing with different cultures and how people react when assimilation occurs. Because of this, living in the United States often requires us to completely accept only one identity, even though hints of the other may spill over at times.

The United States has been a heavily involved in Latin American affairs for a long time, and there is great controversy surrounding how good of a neighbor we have been. As the “Colossus of the North”, this country holds enormous power. The question is; have we used our power for good or for evil? At times, we have been generous to Latin American countries. We returned the Panama Canal to the Panamanians and created free trade with Mexico through NAFTA. However, the negative impact we have had outweighs the good. Time after time, the United States has put dictators into Latin American countries out of the fear of growing communism. We have meddled, taken the situations of our neighbors into our own hands with force, and vilified them for situations like the drug trade dilemma that are partially at the fault of the United States. Due to the selfish overstepping upon Latin American governments, our discrimination and blame upon immigrants and foreigners as well as patronizing actions like the Cuban embargo and the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the Colossus of the North has historically been a poor neighbor to Latin American countries.

Multiculturalism is also known as ethnic diversity relating to communities containing multiple cultures. The term is used in two different broad ways, descriptively and normatively. By using the descriptive term, we usually refer to the simple fact of cultural diversity. This can be applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place and sometimes at the organizational level such as schools, neighborhoods or nations. The normative term is often referred to ideologies or politics that promote this diversity or its institutionalization. The United States have been a magnet for people all over the globe, searching for a better life and bringing their own culture and traditions to a new vast country. No