(CODE IV) TASK. MELTING POT AND SALAD BOWL

1. What do you know about melting pot and salad bowl and please explain?

• Melting polt means there is a fusion of various cultures into a single form in the pot. From a variety of materials together, from heterogenous to homogenous. Here, the process of assimilation of each part.

• As we know, if the name of salads, be it western or salad models our own version, you will see each piece, but form a unity called salad without fusion of each piece. although we put on it salad dressing, nonetheless each piece still stands alone and has its own role, but still form a unity. So looks very the beautiful colors. like a rainbow.

2. Does American people see melting pot as a model to  follow. explain ?

           America is called the melting pot because there are people from everywhere around the world, they have different cultures, different customs, but when they come to America, they are one, one nation.

Contrary to common belief, America is actually not a 'melting pot'. America is a 'salad bowl'. A melting pot implies that people who come into the society assimilate and adopt the standard of their new adopted society, contributing something along the way. A salad bowl implies that you hold onto your culture even after you arrive, and don't take on the characteristics of the new society, so that you have a mixture of a lot of different things, but you can still tell them apart like in a salad. Cheese fondue is made up of lots of different ingredients but you can't point and say "there's the white wine" the way you can say "there's the tomatoes and there's the celery" in a salad.

           Historically, the melting pot notion has not progressed in its entirety within U.S. society, due in part to the presence of structural barriers, including prejudice and discrimination, that have limited some immigrant and native-born minority persons from significant access to the resources and privileges of the dominant social group. Moreover, within the United States some ethnic people have actively chosen not to "give up" their native heritage and identity, despite their desires to participate successfully within the American economy.