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Melting Pot and Mosaics

Melting pot and mosaics were discussed as two models for how cultures interact within a society. The melting pot metaphor describes a society where different ethnic and cultural groups assimilate and integrate into a harmonious whole with a common culture. Pros include increased unity, but it can lead to loss of individual cultures. The cultural mosaic model describes a society where multiple ethnic and cultural groups maintain their distinct identities but coexist within a shared space. Pros include increased tolerance and recognition of minority groups, but it may highlight differences and reduce social cohesion.

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Melting Pot and Mosaics

Melting pot and mosaics were discussed as two models for how cultures interact within a society. The melting pot metaphor describes a society where different ethnic and cultural groups assimilate and integrate into a harmonious whole with a common culture. Pros include increased unity, but it can lead to loss of individual cultures. The cultural mosaic model describes a society where multiple ethnic and cultural groups maintain their distinct identities but coexist within a shared space. Pros include increased tolerance and recognition of minority groups, but it may highlight differences and reduce social cohesion.

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Melting pot and mosaics

1. As I know that there was less people immigrate to my country, native


speakers came to my country with a purpose that they traveled or went
away on business. There are more immigrants nowadays than in the past,
but this number is not worth considering comparing to other countries. The
immigrants come from many countries around the globe, however, the
ones are Korean, Chinese and a few of European. I think the reason why
they left their country and decided to come to my country is to build up
business, create a new life or simply they was impressed by my country
since the first time they came and hence they want to live here.
2. Of course, there were many people in my country trying to emigrate to
other country because they believed that they would be a better life in
other country. And what the country they went being European countries,
Australia or Canada, these are the rich countries so they think that they can
find a good job and earn a lot of money comparing to live in Viet Nam. The
United States is the first choice when people want to emigrate because the
US is diversity that means there are many different cultures as well as
different ethnics in American, and the American government has
encouraged emigration and it is a rich country. It is very hard to know
exactly that there was a particular period when they went and a particular
region where they settled because the US is very large and it has fifty states
3. Cultural mosaic" is the mix of ethnic groups, languages and cultures that co-
exist within society. The idea of a cultural mosaic is intended to champion an
ideal of multiculturalism.
List pros and cons:
Pros
• People are more tolerant of other ethnics
• Better for immigrants
• People are allowed to practice their own culture
• People are more likely to learn English
• People feel welcomed
• There is more recognition to minority groups
• The ideas from diversity of view-points will strengthen the host country
• A greater chance that the immigrants will fight for their host country
• Attempts to create unity through difference
• Provides the public sense of free speech
• Democratic
• Can help separate conflicting groups
• Economically beneficial to immigrants and the host country
Cons
• people are not very unified
• loss of culture of the host country
• It highlights difference and can increase hate crimes
• It is less successful because of having to do with problems of social cohesion,
conflict, and even violence
• encourages damaging claims to victim-hood can cause the false mashing of
identities
b. Melting pot definition:
The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more
homogenous the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious
whole with a common culture. It is particularly used to describe the
assimilation of immigrants to USA; the melting-together metaphor was in use
by the 1780s.
List pro's and cons:
Pros
• People are more unified
• Already unified in time of crisis
• Increase standard of living
• Can provide indigenous peoples with skills to succeed
• America demonstrates that assimilation can succeed\
Cons
• People are less tolerant of other ethnics
• Example of assimilation is with the First Nations
• Enforces English, which leads to rebellion
• People are expected to shed their own culture
• Loss of many characteristics of absorbed group
• Forbids any formal governmental recognition being given to groups of
different kinds.

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