America Is The Melting Pot Of The World

6. Greek and Roman cultures had an impact on modern day american and European culture. They passed on architecture and literature. They also passed down law and christianity.

     Not only was Rome highly influential back in its prime, but many of its ideals are still remaining strong in some form or another. A perfect example of this is the United States. Even in the "Pledge of Allegiance" there are traces of Rome. For part of it states that; "? By the republic for which it stands?" this says that this country is ran under a republic. Just as Rome in its first five hundred year reign. We have adopted the same thought that through our senators, who are elected by the people, a better country can be developed. This is an almost exact adoption of the Roman states system that implies a highly centralized government can run an entire nation effectively.

Both Romans and Americans are known for allowing their conquered to enjoy a certain amount of liberty. A less glorious similarity is the Roman and American social welfare systems. Straying from using the imagination and classical problem solving, both civilizations have expended their resources to quiet the cries of the hopeless, without building any hope for their unfortunate citizens. Roman law influenced much of the American legal system, especially in the area of criminal justice. America has followed in the footsteps of the Romans in many ways, for better or for worse.

The Roman Empire’s culture has impacted the lives of many Americans, framing our ways of life. Romance languages have significantly affected the languages we speak today. The Roman languages consists of four languages; Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and

A Roman Impact on the United States Ancient Greece and Rome were both very influential to the United States. Greece is located in Europe and greatly known by its capital Athens. Rome is located in Italy and known for its influential architecture and culture. Ancient Rome more accurately reflects the social and political makeup of the United States compared to Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece positively influenced the United States in terms of economic aspects.

Rome built on aristocratic landlords expanding out from city-states. Rome relied on slavery for their economic base in which a third of the population were slaves. Rome invented concrete and engineered things like aqueducts that brought water to parts of the city. Mechanisms for political integration in the roman empire were based on bureaucracy that was less complex than the Han dynasty and relied on local elites and middle class to control provinces that were less centralized. There was a greater emphasis on law codes and a common legal system. Monuments and triumphal processions played up the glory, stability, and civilization of the empire and its rulers which was considered an idealistic ideology. Rome also had a cult organized by deceased emperors from the past. They would use colonies to foster unity and integration throughout its empire by the means of colonies that were considered military outposts that were not intended for the use of population integration. Latin was encouraged to be learned throughout Rome, but it never took over the Greek language in the East since post

For example, “We still use its alphabet, exploit its literary genres, inhabit its cities, preserve its architectural styles, and follow its schedule of holidays.” (Murphy 2). Here, one is able to identify that contemporary day America still possesses and develops upon a myriad of features of the Roman Empire. The educated elite within Rome impacted the perspectives and virtues of Americas Founding Fathers, as their values enabled them to fulfill their task. As seen here, “The educated elite of the thirteen-colonies were steeped in the Roman code of virtus…they held fast to their rustic virtues: sanctity of family, sobriety of conduct and demeanor, a stern sense of discipline… Romans achieved their mission, divinely inspired, to rule the world…they were the values the Founding Fathers.” (6). Here, one is demonstrated that the perspectives of the Rome significantly influenced the outlook of Americas Founding Fathers, which allowed them to accomplish their tasks. Additionally, the advancements of the Roman Empire influenced America’s political leaders as well. For instance, “By the time Eisenhower reached San Francisco, sixty-two days later, he understood that America needed what Rome had possessed, a network of good public roads. When he became president, he created the interstate highway system.” (13). Therefore, Rome’s advancements during the

Because the Modern U.S. and Ancient Rome have many similarities and differences, the lessons from Ancient Rome could help the U.S. to avoid the fall and collapse that Rome experienced. The similarities between Rome and the USA is that bother these countries were important military superpowers, similar architecture, and governments. Ancient Rome was a military superpower

Romans have had a big impact in the American’s culture. The Americans have learned alot from the romeons. The romeons have accomplished a lot of achievements through their life stlye. The romans made a lot of things like, Roman Calendar, Roman Law, Roman Architecture, Aqueducts, hot water systems, Roman Roads and etc… But, the main ones that American still use from the romans are the roman roads and the cloaca maxima.

Rome has contributed a lot to the Mediterranean and more off the U.S and rest of the world. Rome started Democracy, a government in which the people elect a leader and people to represent them. The US has many things inspired by and very similar to Rome including, in Rome if a law seemed unfair than it could be set aside, in the US something can be ruled unconstitutional. The women's rights inspired by Rome sparked women's rights in the US.

This affects people and society greatly, because Rome without Rome’s allowance and promotion of Christianity, it would not be as big as it is today. Another huge cultural innovation the Romans created was language. They didn’t actually create language, but what they did is create Latin. Latin is one of the most important ancient languages because a lot of major languages are based off it. For example, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian all come from the Latin language (6).

In around 428-65 BC, Greece and Rome were both creating new cultural ideals, ways of using government, and built allies to help benefit the country. Both Empires created similar cultures including cities,technology, complex institutions, record keeping and specialized works. Eventually when they began to expand into a vast empires, they had to come up with ways of organizing and obtaining enough resources for their people. This lead to complex trading tactics, forms of government, and social structure. Even though Rome and Greece were both critical to the creation of the United States, Rome was more influential due to the way it trades with other countries, glorified people of certain social positions, and structured its government.

America is a melting pot made up of people from many different races and ethnic backgrounds, so why are the American news broadcasters predominantly white men in their late forties? News represents the American society so therefore American broadcasters should reflect society as a whole. In addition, many people consider news anchors role models and it is important to see themselves represented and trust their news source. The lack of diversity among newscasters impacts the audience’s reception of the news. People are more likely to trust news sources that they relate to and identify with. Many people do not even notice the lack of diversity or understand the impact it has on society. There needs to be more of an effort to reflect diversity among our newscasters to correct the history of discrimination, to accurately reflect the audience and to provide role models and promote positive images.

I definitely disagree with the statement “America is a melting pot”. The melting pot theory is directly correlated to the term assimilation, which can be described as, “the process in which formerly distinct and separate groups come together to share a common culture and merge together socially.” Put a different way, assimilation is a practice in which an individual gives up his/her own culture to conform to the dominant culture, being the American culture. During the 19th and 20th centuries, people began immigrating to the Unites States from regions in Northern and Southern Europe which include groups such as Jews and Italians. By residing in the U.S they began to amalgamate into the melting pot, thereby adopting the American lifestyle.

America has had a reputation for being a melting pot since 1782. The Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell are visual symbols of America’s reputation. However, it has been recommended that America no longer allow just any immigrant into America due to increased fear involving job loss and terrorism. The world continues to change and more violence is persistent in countries all over. Therefore, America should forget its reputation as a melting pot.