USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
“America is a melting pot” is an example of

(A) ** Metaphor

(B) Simile

(C) Foreshadowing

(D) Repetition

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -A melting pot is a metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one. America is often called a melting pot. Some countries are made of people who are almost all the same in terms of race, religion, and culture.

Concept note-2: -The melting pot theory of multiculturalism assumes that various immigrant groups will tend to “melt together, ” abandoning their individual cultures and eventually becoming fully assimilated into the predominant society.

Concept note-3: -A salad bowl or tossed salad is a metaphor for the way a multicultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities, contrasting with a melting pot, which emphasizes the combination of the parts into a single whole.

Concept note-4: -The term melting pot was coined in 1908 by Israel Zangwill. It was first used as a metaphor to describe the union of many nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities. New York City is a place where over 800 languages are spoken and is the quintessential melting pot.

Concept note-5: -While the melting pot theory can be applied to any country that has integrated new cultures into its own, such as Brazil, Bangladesh, or even France, the theory is most commonly used to describe the United States as a new world with a distinct new breed of people amalgamated from many various groups of immigrants.