Us Melting Pot Or Salad Bowl

MELTING POT OR SALAD BOWL ? Introduction : With over 309 million people, the United States is the third largest country by its population. It’s one of the most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations by its rate of immigration at the large-scale from many countries as Mexico, India or the Philippines. But are they making a part of a society becoming more homogeneous so as to "melt together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture, it means melting pot ? Or do cultures juxtaposed

Thursday, January 20, 2010 The U.S: A Salad Bowl or a Melting Pot? By Alexandra Phelps {draw:frame} American society has often been described as a melting pot but in recent years, it has also attracted other definitions such as " salad bowl ". For centuries, the US has attracted people in search of a share of "the American dream" from all corners of the world. In fact, US history is one of immigration. In 1620, about 100 English colonists, so-called "Mayflower Pilgrims" left for

showing percentages of main ethnic groups in the US population in 1997 and in 2050 (the informations given for that date are expectations), Both document 1 and 2 are from the newspaper Washington Post, published on February 22nd, 1998, and are primary sources. The third document is a cartoon of Engelhardt in The Saint-Louis dispatch, taken from Civilisation des États-Unis published in 1995, it is a secondary source. This corpus deals with the melting pot in the USA, and maybe the end of it. We will

based on computer modeling, suggested white British and Irish populations would grow slowly while the "other white" ethnic group would be extremely fast growing. This was because of expected high levels of immigration from Europe, Australasia and the US. In October, the Office for National Statistics predicted the ethnic population would exceed 70 million by 2029. As far as ethnicity is concerned, the case of London is very interesting since London is considered as the most racially diverse UK city

The song begins by the girls complaining about several disadvantages of Puerto Rico, their homeland. They say “Always the hurricanes blowing, always the population growing” and don’t want to hear about it “Let it slip back to the ocean”. To them, the US and Puerto Rico are poles apart. In Manhattan, there are no hurricanes, no overpopulation… “I like the isle of Manhattan”. The chorus, well-known, expresses the complete content of the girls, who see in America the perfect country. “I like to be in

années. La volonté de certains « marketers » est de traduire ces statistiques en termes d’opportunités de marché et d’atteindre des individus qui s’identifient à un groupe ethnique particulier et qui ont des comportements de consommation homogènes. Or les études démographiques montrent que dans l'avenir, la population dominante va tendre à se réduire au profit des groupes minoritaires. Par exemple, en Australie, le groupe dominant anglophone est censé représenter 66% de la population en 2030 tandis

fait par les vainqueurs. Creátion de l‘ONU (paix, sécurité, justice) le 26 juin 1945 apres la conférence de San Francisco. - Eco: stabilité monétaire pour libre échanges, libéralisme. Bretton Woods (1944), le U$D est la seul monnaie convertible en or. Organismes de l’ONU tel le FMI. Création du GATT en 1947, URSS le réfuse. ➢ TENTION ENTRE VAINQUEURS - Conférence de Yalta (1945): partage du monde. Alliés veulent repandre les elections libres dans les territoires ocuppés, URSS refuse. 1946:

ranchs). - Exploitations forestières en Ohio et dans l’Ontario Les Usa disposent dans leur sols de nombreuses richesses : (voir page suivante) - Charbon dans les Appalaches - Pétrole (Alaska, Floride, Golfe du Mexique) - Bauxite (Centre) -> aluminium - Or, platine et argent -> Ouest (Californie, Nevada…) - Sel, fer, titane, zinc… B) Une population avec de fort contrastes : Quelques chiffres à connaître La population américaine compte 304 millions d’habitants (2008). Chaque année, sa croissance est

Chapitre 1 : The current immigration dilemma I) A short reminder: American immigration policy until 1965 Debate: a lot of question about immigration today in US. The existence of the US is linked to the immigration. US created as asylum of a refuge for all the people that were poor, persecuted, etc. ->for a long time the US practiced an open door policy: they welcomed all the people who wanted to go. 19th: They started restricting, limiting immigration with a few law, measure: •

devient le premier pays producteur de cinéma en Europe, second producteur mondial. (UFA à Berlin) Acteurs : Marlène Dietrich, vedette allemande. Femme ambitieuse, fatale, décidée. Von Stroheim, Juif allemand... Autre réalisateur : E. Lubitsch (To be or not to be, film qui dénonce le nazisme, 42-43). Architecture/design : Bauhaus, révolution de l'architecture mondiale. Les artistes sont partis aux USA pendant la guerre. Littérature et science : des écrivains reconnus : Hermann Hesse, les frères