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The Melting Pot ----the United States What is the melting pot? The melting pot is a metaphor for a society full of diverse elements becoming a relatively harmonious whole one with a common culture the American is one who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. How does the melting pot coming into being？ Independence Immigration The Independence of America has the influence to promote the immigration. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European immigration to the United States became increasingly diverse and increased substantially in numbers. Beginning in the 1890s, large numbers of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups such as the Italians, Jews, and Poles arrived. What happened in the melting pot ? People with different cultural and ethnical backgrounds came into the same place struggling for a better life, how did they reach the agreement? Thats the progress of acculturation during which there exist deprivation.discrimination, hope for dignity ,stuggling for freedom and so forth In 1830s,the Trail of Tears made the American Indians suffer a lot Muslim Americans were trying to repel other religious groups The whites of the society discriminated the blacks,which resulted in the African-American civil rights movement In the 1880s,the new laws forced later-coming chinese to crowded in Chinatow What Americans realise in melting pot Compromises can be made between multiculturalists no matter what has happened ,people can show respects to the ones from different races.Every one in the United States has the desire for peace,freedom ，a harmonious society and all have the American Dream