Is the United States a melting pot or pluralist society?

The melting pot is typically referred to homogenous groups living together in a manner that their cultures and religious beliefs are blended together as active ingredients in a pot and lose their dinstict identities to a particular degree providing an end product that has a distinct flavor and consistency completely different from its initial components. Pluralism does not produce a different end product. It is more like a salad bowl where the different active ingredients i. e. cultures and ethinicties keep their originality and taste.

Pluralism accepts and affirm diversity of faiths, ideas, opinions of individuals. Elements such as Globalization, the internet, tv, politics and schools have turned United States into a melting pot with ethnicities and differences passing away out and bring to life a brand-new breed of Americans. High levels of Immigration by Asians, Non-white Hispanics and Blacks have actually changed United Stated from being a bulk of European descendent English speaking Americans.

California, Texas, Florida and New York have the most immigrants.

The melting pot phenomenon also includes an intermarriage of ethnicities. The children of racial and ethnic intermarriages acquire different languages and attain different social, religious and economic backgrounds. These marriages are most common in European descendent groups. The most common are between Whites and Asians, Whites and Hispanics and Whites and African Americans. This is the important sign of assimilation.

It is advantageous for the United States to maintain its “melting pot” status. There is nothing wrong with giving opportunities and a better way of life to life to people belonging to different countries, races and religions.

This will lead to a more patriotic and nationalist society.

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