Exploring Cultural Diversity Issues
Issue 1:
Consider: Melting Pot vs. "Tossed
Salad" -- Can muli-cultures blend together with still maintaining the separate
identity, keeping your own sense of culture in tact?
1. Listen to (or read):
- January 25, 2001's TALK OF THE
NATION
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=01/25/2001&PrgID=5
HOST: JUAN WILLIAMS
HOUR ONE: Redefining the Melting Pot
TAMAR JACOBY *Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute *author most recently
"Someone Else's House:America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration"
EDWARD RINCON *President, of Rincon & Associates a marketing research firm
in Dallas
- Overview:
"Throughout the twentieth century
America was described as a melting pot, a stew and a tossed salad. As we enter
the twenty first century the U.S. is more culturally diverse than ever. One
out of every ten Americans is now foreign born. And the number of Hispanics,
Asians, and Black Americans has never been higher. Many Americans struggle
with how large of a role their traditional culture and racial identity should
occupy in their daily lives. How do you not let your culture get erased by
the American mainstream? Juan Williams and guests look at how heightened sensitivity
to racial and ethnic identities is changing the concept of American identity.
What's happening in the melting pot?"
2. What is your opinion? Submit
to your instructor your opinion. Should America be a "melting pot"
or a "tossed salad?" Why? What is the difference between accommodation
and assimilation?
