Melting Pot

This melting-pot heritage makes the former West Village cabaret an enticing place to duck into on a lazy Sunday. ❋ Rachel Louise Ensign (2011)

From the nation's origins, built on the principal of religious freedom, the series winds its way through wars and social revolutions including the civil-rights movement, exploring the part religion has played in shaping this country's melting-pot nature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1916, critic and essayist Randolph Bourne challenged such attitudes with an essay — now considered a classic of forward thinking — calling for a new, more cosmopolitan conception of America and a reconsideration of the "melting-pot" theory ❋ Unknown (2009)

So I've kind of wondered if other aspects of the backstory -- the working-class family with lower social status than the distinctly WASP Osbornes, the melting-pot backdrop of New York, the civil rights struggle contemporaneous with the origin -- opened up the character to similar projections on ethnic/racial grounds. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

The story is about the "melting-pot" of aliens and humans in a normal village, where aliens do whatever they please and humans just observe, slack-jawed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Americans often give short shrift to the impact of people's cultural and ethnic backgrounds on behavior and attitudes; analyzing these things runs against the American melting-pot ethos. ❋ Stanton Peele (2010)

Do you rustle up food that makes him feel at-home comfortable or do you give him a taste of bold/melting-pot American flavors? ❋ Bonnie S. Benwick (2011)

The reality of the racial melting-pot in America and elsewhere is more complex than ethnocentric “scientific” speculation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For about two centuries, the Lower East Side was home to generations of new immigrants, and the neighborhood is famed for its melting-pot past, historic buildings and narrow, tenement-lined streets. ❋ Melanie Lefkowitz (2011)

The star of Middlesex is the gender-conflicted Calliope/Cal, but Jeffrey Eugenides' seriocomic 2002 novel is also an Ellis Island/melting-pot story. ❋ Dave Astor (2011)

She held her ground against other top administration officials and successfully fought efforts to dismantle Commerce, a sprawling melting-pot of a department whose diverse activities include compiling trade statistics, forecasting the weather, managing the oceans, taking the census and promoting American exports overseas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or should we then press Israel to grant the Palestinians full political rights, consistent with America's own "melting-pot" traditions? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But we will as a nation be destroyed if we allow the 9-11 attacks to turn America from the great melting-pot and land of opportunity into the land of religious discrimination, fear and retribution. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[United States of America] is [the most] [known] melting pot ❋ Swicca (2005)

I could have went to [a five] star restaurant a got a fat [steak], but i went to the melting pot and had to cook [my own] food. ❋ Rhinohead (2006)

Why have [dinner] when you can [instead] [share] a melting pot with your closest friends? ❋ Adtng (2016)

[I'm not] [a racist], I'm A [MELTING POT OF FRIENDSHIP]! ❋ KLP507 (2011)

That girl has [slept] with [Mexicans], black guys, and [white] guys. She must have a melting pot pussy ❋ Jaeded (2017)

[Trey] did a San Fransisco Melting Pot at [Andrews] [last night]. ❋ Marcas Buster (2015)

Man, I gave [this guy] [the biggest] Ugandan Melting Pot last night, he [loved] it! ❋ Queef Hunter (2018)