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  2. Melting pot - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term is often used to describe the cultural integration of immigrants to the country. [ 1] A related concept has been defined as "cultural additivity." [ 2] The melting-together metaphor was in use by the 1780s. [ 3][ 4] The exact term "melting pot" came into general usage in the United States after it was used as a ...

  3. 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 ...

  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. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Smelting - Wikipedia

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    It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead and zinc. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal behind. The reducing agent is commonly a fossil-fuel source of carbon, such as carbon ...

  8. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially. [ 1] The different types of cultural assimilation include full assimilation and forced assimilation.

  9. 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 ...