USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The exact term “melting pot” came into general usage in the United States after it was used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in the 1908 play of the same name.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is the Melting Pot? The melting pot is at the heart of the American immigration system. The melting pot comes from the idea that all of the cultural differences in the United States meld together, as if they were metals being melted down to become a stronger alloy.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The “melting pot” culture refers to people from various cultures coming together to create a new unique culture. (Lorenzo, 2000) In other words, these cultures have ‘melted’ together in a ‘pot’. For example, Chinese, Koreans, Germans and more cultures blended in together to create a whole new American culture.