Melting pot
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A melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, with the different elements "melting together" with a common culture or monoculture; an alternative being a homogeneo
The image of the United States as a melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot.
The racial mixing of Spaniards and indigenous Latin Americans
Salad bowl (cultural idea)
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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 emph
Melting pot
…by proponents of multiculturalism (cultural mosaic), who have suggested alternative metaphors to describe the current American society, such as a salad bowl, or kaleidoscope, in which different cultures mix, but remain distinct in some aspects. The melting pot continues to be used as an assimilation model…
Various distinct components can combine to make a salad.