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    America is known as the melting pot of the world, where different races live in unity and peace. Is this true or is this what we are taught to believe. It is essential to understand ourselves to understand others. It lets the person know how the right of judgment they have of themselves, and that 's what they reflect. Judging an individual by their skin color or race instead of their character can dehumanize a person, and it can have a significant effect on their lives. Discrimination still exists

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    From our own eyes, we can see the changes America had gone through everyday. The history of America is a giant textbook; almost impossible to complete in a semester of history class. America had stood of her own ideologies since the day she became a country. Like every country in the world, people have controversial opinions on this land. Some felt America has the best value of all; while some felt like America didn’t lived up to her promises. America is a country that has grown more complicated

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    Melting Pot Of Art

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    revels in art as a way to celebrate what is different about her, not for the sake of just “being different,” but because every person really is different. Different is cool. Different is what makes us all artists if we are true to ourselves. The melting pot of America is different. Our backgrounds and our futures are all different. It’s what makes us as a country so special. It’s what allows us to pursue our passions and inspire others with art, if we allow it. Megan considers soccer to be a big part

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    The American Melting Pot

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    The mantra of the United States advertises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as inalienable rights in the quest for the dream of living free to follow your aspirations. Our founding fathers could not have foreseen the greed of today’s capitalism, the challenges of individual identities not native of her people, nor the discord that would come from the ability to follow those individual dreams while following the entrenched Americanized social systems. The truth may be found in a mantra

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    Americ The Melting Pot

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    America is known as the melting pot. It is a lovely thought that every race and nationality are melted into one entity, perhaps if we lived in an utopian society that term would be true. The truth is, there has been a racial divide in America between the african american and white race that dates back to the 1600’s. Caught in the middle of this divide are the biracial population. They are the embodiment of two polar opposite races coming together. One might think they are bridging the gap between

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    The Melting Pot Analysis

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    Throughout the course of a mere few decades, the makeup of the U.S. and its citizens has immensely evolved. Along with colossal diversity, ergo “The Melting Pot,” abolishment of limited lifestyle choices occurred in the twenty-first century, sanctioning infinite opportunities to citizens of any racial/cultural background. A myriad of options pertaining to religion, education, housing, and employment are now available in America. Despite the unfathomable span of possibilities, each American strives

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    Stereotyping and discrimination are very deeply ingrained in American culture. Even though there have been movements taken to combat stereotyping and discrimination such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Rights movement, and the Black Lives Matter Movement, it still exists. This raises the question of, how do we end it? While there is no definite answer there is a way to avoid stereotyping and discrimination. The three essayists Bharati Mukherjee, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Brent Staples and show

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    about the U.S. history to become citizens of America, to become an American. As well, the american dream brings many other people from other nations, however, religion isn’t similar, people had separate religions which may cause a dispute in the “Melting Pot Theory”. Furthermore, the American Dream has many different meanings for everyone, the concept of the American dream started out in the 1930’s and there was a book written about this concept. A good representation of the American dream is stated

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    The movie, The House We Live In gave an interesting perspective that although the U.S is a melting pot, certain groups are excluded from this melting pot as cited in the movie. A melting pot is defined as a place where different groups with different ideas are placed into a location where they are mixed together and are supposed to interact with each other. For example, in the U.S.A, there are a bunch of unique cultures like Asians, Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans that mix together

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    appropriate to Americans, I think Richard Rodriguez's idea is more realistic in nowadays American society. Rodriguez resists the idea of the melting pot, and believes that assimilation is inevitable and reciprocal. In the essay Does America Still Exist?, Rodriguez explains his thought to us through his experiences. First, Rodriguez thinks the old metaphor of a melting pot is no longer accepted by Americans. He indicates that "As much as the country is joined in a common culture, however, Americans are reluctant

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