Is the United States more of a salad bowl or a melting pot?

Question

Defend your answer, Earthlings.

Answer 1

Well as an unbiased outsider I would have to say it's more of a fruit salad judging by some of the fruitloops you have representing you !

Not that it gets much better in the land down under !

Answer 2

salad bowl... each of us has different races and cultures... but though our lives touch, they hardly ever mesh...

not pleasantly anyway

Answer 3

I think it depends on what part of the US you are in. Places like NYC are more like a melting pot, in my opinion..but places like the deep South are more of a salad bowl since there are still things like racism and prejudice. I actually was thinking about this the other day though...how just walking around (I live in Alabama and go to college in Tuscaloosa), you see so many different backgrounds and I think it's so cool. That's just one thing America is known for - acceptance. I really do like to think of the US as a whole as more of a melting pot because we are such a large mixture of different people.

Answer 4

melting pot i suppose. its more like a melting ice cube or something.

hardly a salad bowl anymore.

if you ever watch the movie or clips from the movie/documentary "six degrees"

its quite informing.

taught me a lot.

Answer 5

Melting pot

most countries basically hate us, its kinda sad.lol

Answer 6

It used to be a melting pot.  Immigrants came to the U.S. to learn the language and assimilate.  They gave their children "american" names and they wanted to be "americans".  They were proud to be American.  

Now adays, people immigrate to the U.S., don't bother to learn the language and don't want to learn.  They live in areas together and don't really seem to have any interest in being "American".  They want to be where they are from.  So, I think we're a salad bowl.

Answer 7

salad bowl first generation

then if allowed to go to public school or exposed to media,

melting pot second generation.

Answer 8

It's more like a toilet bowl....and goin down...

Answer 9

I was thinking more along the lines of: crock of sh/t.

Answer 10

A bit of both actually, it depends largely on where you are in the US (it's a big country) and how open you are as a person.  

If I compare the US to the rest of the world though, it is hands down a melting pot.  

Answer 11

jello mold

Answer 12

Salad bowl; we are a society of mixed races, cultures, religions, ages, income brackets, morals, life styles, political views etc. but we are not blending together.

Answer 13

More like refried beans

Answer 14

It has been said by many that the US is a melting pot, while Canada is a tossed salad.  People come to the US to realise the American dream, and by doing so, is to live the American way.  Of course there are some gateway communities, but they never fully integrate in American society.  By contrast, Canada (most regions - there are exceptions there too) encourages the embracement of other cultures, and it has become a part of Canadian culture.  Toronto is the most visible example, where even festivals celebrate a culture (or the mix).  I lived in NY for a while, which is quite cosmopolitan, but there is an implicit pressure to conform to a certain way, or else become marginalized.  

Answer 15

Melting pot.

The cultures mix together. And I think that's pretty cool.