Melting Pot And Mosaic

In the Mosaic versus Melting Pot?: Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada and the United, Howard Palmer points out that the United States and Canada share a similar history of immigration, however they resulted in two different types of society. The immigration history of the US and Canada is similar especially regarding to immigration policies, history of racism and nativism, and discriminations against immigrants. Both countries used theories of Anglo conformity, Melting Pot, and Cultural Pluralism for assimilating the immigrants.

Canada is internationally recognized as a culturally diverse nation that emphasizes the concept of “The Mosaic”. No other country in the world encompasses inhabitants from so many different backgrounds who exhibit strong loyalty towards Canada, while still preserving their cultural heritage. This is contrasted to the American ideal of the "Melting Pot", which attempts to shape all of their citizens into a set mold. Canada’s philosophy is believed to be more effective and respectful than that which is possessed by our American neighbours. The following will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, and analyze the impact of the structures on each country’s society.

In discussions of tossed salad and melting pot, a controversial issue is whether or not tossed salad is better than melting pot. Tossed salad represents multiculturalism. The tossed salad is colorful and it has unique and different ingredients it has the tomatoes, the lettuce, the cucumbers, the red and green and orange bell peppers and other ingredients. Each ingredient has its own unique color, texture and taste. What unites all these ingredients though is the dressing whether it is Italian, French or Ranch. They all come together to be able to form one thing. It is the same thing with a tossed salad society. Being part of a tossed salad means that one lives in a multicultural society in which one could

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

The article ‘’What Every American Should Know’’ by Eric Liu acknowledges the struggles, the rapidly changing, and all of the multicultural issues that continually expands through every day of the culture wars. So within this article Liu is confronting a very substantial topic, which he asserts the problem of cultural diversity or the culture wars inside of the United States. In the article Liu provides the reader with many different examples all the way from cultural literacy, multiculturalism, and many examples from history over the years. Liu also expresses these examples in a way that the reader can absorb the details in a different style were the reader has to look at each example in a different aspect to fully understand what he is trying to stay. Liu evaluates E.D Hirsch and talks about the list. The list that every American should know, containing ten words that every citizen in America should know. Liu discourages people use Hirsch’s list because of the time differences between the past and the future, and how the culture war has progressed through time. Liu has evolved Hirsch’s idea and created something more modern that people can create their own list to show the people of America different opinions to have and no one is wrong or right that is what makes this list so influential. (Liu)

is a unique country that stands for something special in the world." One of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country's Chester Avenues. Faced with this diversity there is little point in trying to isolate anything remotely resembling a national character, but there are two strains of behavior that, however tenuously, abet the concept of unity.There is the Calvinist undercurrent in the American psyche that loves the difficult, the demanding, that sees mastering the impossible, whether it be prairie or subway, as a test of character, and so glories in the struggle of this fractured coalescing. And there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the United States that eventually leads most to admit that, no matter what the English-only advocates try to suggest, the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or

The concept of a ‘Melting pot” is an idea that America is known for and accustomed to for years and years to come. Unfortunately, that analogy leads people to get rid of their culture for the American culture. Leading the public to the point where they strive to prove their differences just to stand out and make a name. One demographic, African Americans, have been trying to reconnect to their native heritage after being stripped from their identity years ago. From their traditions, how they cook food, and the way they do their hair. African Americans have become more determined to be in touch with their inner self as the years go by. Because they were ripped from their homeland African Americans may never know to the full extent of

At first glance, it appears that Anurita Bains' "Riding the Hyphen" and Neil Bissoondath's "Selling Illusions" stake diametrically opposed viewpoints: Bains' essay derides assimilation (using her own experiences as a Punjabi girl growing up in Canada as a point of emphasis); Bissoondath's essay opposes "multiculturalism". The uncritical reader might suggest that one must either be pro-assimilation or pro-multiculturalism and that both writers are representing a side. And yet neither writer actually advocates anything other than being human which is as simple and complex as one chooses to make it. This paper will compare and contrast the two pieces' style and show why both pieces succeed in putting a human face on an issue that often tends to emphasize the background and leave out the humanity.

The Author Marable defines “multiculturalism” as “the recognition that our nation’s cultural heritage that does not begin and end with the intellectual and aesthetic products of Western Europe, rather multiculturalism rejects the model of cultural assimilation and social conformity.” However, Multiculturalism is often been misinterpreted, Marable according to him said that, the “melting pot” never existed.

Lawrence W. Levine approaches the issue of ethnic relations in a slightly different light in his book, “The Opening of the American Mind”. He focuses on the two central components of the entire matter: One-way Assimilation (the melting pot ideology) and Cultural Pluralism, given that the two other models (Ethnic

LeAna B. Gloor’s From the Melting Pot to the Tossed Salad Metaphor provides a look into different opinions about multiculturalism in America. Gloor is an urban planner based in Hawaii, and attended the University of Hawaii at Hilo. The essay was published in the fourth volume of the University’s academic journal, Hohonu. Gloor’s main claim is that multiculturalism is a positive part of American life and forcing those who do not conform to social norms to become more “American” is bad for the country and against its values, saying, “If this trend away from multiculturalism continues and coercive assimilation views become mainstream in America, I believe we will stifle our creative power and squelch the civil liberties that this country was built on” (1).

The United States of America is “Great Malting Pot,” the mixture of many cultures, languages and religions to from a single national identity. In US, all different kind of people lives and makes their own space. There are many

In accordance with her beliefs, the reader determines Smith’s perspective on multiculturalism, that it must be an integral aspect of a society, as ascertained through her condescending statements on “Northern Ireland, an area where people who look absolutely identical to each other, eat the same food, pray to the same God, read the same holy book, wear the same clothes, and celebrate the same holidays” (Smith, On Optimism and Despair, The New York Review of Books). If this aspect of cultural diversity lacks within the society at large, then an entire country will be homogenous, beating to the drum of conformity. Observed in multiple facets throughout the world, an absence of multiculturalism becomes a world that has, “purged a small Italian village of its Jews and, by virtue of its physical distance from Milan,” while the rest of the village remains predominately white and catholic, unaware of their exclusionary practices (Smith, On Optimism and Despair, The New York Review of Books). Juxtaposed with her examples of homogeneity, Smith then provides her example of a perfect execution of multiculturalism: her father. She proudly declares of her father, that, “In his mind he did not marry a black girl, he married ‘Yvonne,’ and he did not have an experimental set of mixed-race children, he had me and my brother Ben and my brother Luke” (Smith, On Optimism and Despair,

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

In 1970, the emergence of multiculturalism began, first in Canada and Australia, and then in the United States as well as others. Multiculturalism is the diversity of two or more cultures in a region or country. According to Bhikhn Parekh, the author or Rethinking Multiculturalism, best understands multiculturalism as a “perspective on or a way of viewing life.” Bhikhu Parekh in his novel, Rethinking Multiculturalism, argues for a pluralist view on cultural diversity. He brings upon many explanations on why a pluralistic society should be allowed to thrive in a single society. In his reading Parekh, explains in depth the reasons behind why cultural differences should be respected and tolerated. The main point of Parekh’s essay is how multicultural societies are bound to create situations of disagreement between communities and create crisis. Parekh’s essay involves weighing in on particular cultural traditions against the values of the larger multicultural society, that is, the balancing of diverse forms of “thick” and “thin” considerations. Parekh, suggests that much the the “acimony could have been avoided if the parties had, had access to a public forum where perceptions and emotions could have been tried and mutually tested.” This paper will focus on the Muslim religion and provide information of the misunderstanding of the religion. More importantly, this paper will explain Parekh’s conceived theory of multiculturalism and the challenges that politics, religion and