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America's Immigration Story: Still the Melting Pot ... He noted that the U.S. had been engaged in an experiment -- "the experiment of a democracy of diverse races which has been compared to a melting-pot" [What I Saw in America, 1922, [p.8]. Then, he got to the heart of the matter, more cleanly and clearly than most...
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America's melting pot: Census 2000; ... America is also aging. The median age (def: the point between an equal amount of younger and older people) has reached the highest point ever recorded, 35.3 years. Researchers attribute the aging trend to medical advances, better health care, and better health habits that help...
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Unlike my experience living in Latin America, there was no assumption of class privilege that went with skin tone (i.e., lighter = elite). At the same time, the poor were mind-bogglingly poor. When we hear about those who live on less than ... My American Melting Pot ... Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America...
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But because of my melting pot of a motherland (Guyana, known as the land of six peoples) I dealt with things just a bit differently. Okay I'm rambling now but I wanted to say Thank you! for sharing your story with us! ... Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America...
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You've got to love the American melting pot. ... VideoStory & Recipes ... print story...
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But in the current immigration wave, something markedly different is happening here in the middle of the great American "melting pot." ... Never before have so many immigrants come from a single country – Mexico – or from a single linguistic source-Spanish-speaking Latin America. Since 1970, more than half of...
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President Clinton appointed a commission to help the country absorb its new multicultural citizenry, a flurry of new books have questioned the very premise of the fabled melting pot, and several social historians are now asking whether the country is on the verge of becoming a Balkanized nation ... In much of Latin America,
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A teacher recently called a talk show to report that she had used the term "melting pot" to refer to America and was told in no uncertain terms that the preferred expression is now "diversity salad." How we describe ourselves can have a profound effect.
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