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Solomon Hughes: The Exploding Melting Pot - KQED

America is a melting pot of peoples and cultures, or so the cliché says. But Solomon Hughes says there’s a very big problem with the metaphor’s reality. Few things are more aesthetically pleasing than ... read more

American melting pot: How slowing down immigration could help us build ...

I’m obsessed with the idea of America as a melting pot. We owe the term to Israel Zangwill, who wrote a mostly forgotten play of the same name in 1908. (I remember it like it was yesterday …) ... read more

Armstrong: The melting pot and the American Dream - Roanoke Times

Unlike the melting pot this identity politics pits one group against another in dividing up available resources and benefits. No attempt is made to rationally decide a fair way to divvy up the the ... read more

Beyond the Melting Pot | News | The Harvard Crimson

In Beyond the Melting Pot Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan challenge the very idea of the melting pot through an examination of the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York ... read more

Some Like It Hot: Hispanics and the American Melting Pot

The concept of an American melting pot as the symbol of a universal smelting of various races and cultures into a new, national amalgam dates back as far as 1782 when J. Hector St. John de ... read more

Ralph Ellison and the Melting Pot - National Review

The “melting pot” was the title of a 1908 Broadway play; the phrase quickly became part of our vocabulary, because its basic idea was so readily understood. read more

Analogies for America: Beyond the melting pot - Star Tribune

The melting pot metaphor is a way of expressing "E pluribus unum" — "Out of many, one" — the already old saying adopted in 1782 for the Great Seal of the United States (and which you can see ... read more

THE MELTING POT IS STILL AN IDEAL WORTH PURSUING

”E pluribus unum,” says the motto on this country`s coins. And we mean it, most of us. Most of the time. For most folks, anyway. At least those who don`t need our tax dollars. One of th… ... read more

The Melting Pot Boils Over - CSIS

Over the past 20 or 30 years, however, the national conversation has changed. The melting pot is out, and celebration of our differences is in. First or second-generation immigrants used to take pride ... read more

Former melting pot - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Former melting pot. May 8, ... This metaphor was used to draw our thoughts toward an idea of a land, a nation that offers a unique experience of freedom, opportunity and individuality. read more

The First Measured Century: Timeline: Events - Melting Pot - PBS

The Melting Pot 1908 - Israel Zangwill's play about immigrants in America becomes one of the most successful productions in the history of Broadway. Zangwill updates the story of Romeo and Juliet. read more