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  2. Melting pot - Wikipedia

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    The image of the United States as a melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot.. A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural ...

  3. Israel Zangwill - Wikipedia

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    The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, [11] a success in the United States in 1909–10. The theatrical work explored the themes of ethnic tensions and the idea of cultural assimilation in early 20th-century America.

  4. Salad bowl (cultural idea) - Wikipedia

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    A salad bowl or tossed salad is a metaphor for the way an intercultural 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. In Canada this concept is more commonly known as the cultural mosaic [ 1] or "tossed salad".

  5. RI's melting pot: 100 years of shifting demographics ... - AOL

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    Discover the rich tapestry of RI's melting pot history as we delve into a century of diverse stories hidden within dual addresses on Potters Ave. RI's melting pot: 100 years of shifting ...

  6. Cultural mosaic - Wikipedia

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    "Cultural mosaic" (French: "la mosaïque culturelle") is the mix of ethnic groups, languages, and cultures that coexist within society. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The idea of a cultural mosaic is intended to suggest a form of multiculturalism as seen in Canada , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] that differs from other systems such as the melting pot , which is often used to ...

  7. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for ethnic pluralism, with the two terms often used interchangeably, and for cultural pluralism [ 1] in which various ethnic and cultural groups exist in a single society.

  8. Culture of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The term "melting pot" derives from the play The Melting Pot, by Israel Zangwill, who in 1908 adapted Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to a setting in the Lower East Side, where droves of immigrants from diverse European nations in the early 1900s learned to live together in tenements and row houses for the first time. In 2000, 36% of the city's ...

  9. Canadian Mosaic - Wikipedia

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    Canadian Mosaic is a book by John Murray Gibbon, published in 1938. Gibbon's book, the full title of which is Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation, heralded a new way of thinking about immigrants that was to shape Canadian immigration policy in the latter part of the 20th century. The idea of a mosaic, in which each cultural group ...