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Examples
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This melting-pot heritage makes the former West Village cabaret an enticing place to duck into on a lazy Sunday.
New Twist, Old Favorites Rachel Louise Ensign 2011
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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?
VIP guests for dinner; WWYS? Bonnie S. Benwick 2011
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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: Three Questions About Child Rearing for Mika Brzezinski Stanton Peele 2010
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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.
On Batwoman Hal Duncan 2010
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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: Three Questions About Child Rearing for Mika Brzezinski Stanton Peele 2010
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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: Three Questions About Child Rearing for Mika Brzezinski Stanton Peele 2010
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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
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The reality of the racial melting-pot in America and elsewhere is more complex than ethnocentric “scientific” speculation.
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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: Three Questions About Child Rearing for Mika Brzezinski Stanton Peele 2010
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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: Three Questions About Child Rearing for Mika Brzezinski Stanton Peele 2010
bilby commented on the word melting-pot
(fon)due to be listed.
May 21, 2009