| kain_kusanagi said: I can't tip my hat just yet because your list isn't talking about the kind of melting pot I'm talking about. Let's take your list's Number 1 most "diverse" nation, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is comprised of Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%. Those are all groups that have more in common than they have differences. That's not the kind of diversity I was talking about. I was talking about how the USA is made up of people from so many different nations of who's nations are made up of so many different cultures and subcultures. The USA ranks low on your list because it it's so much broader that it gets simplified to white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61. What does "white" or "black" mean? To your list it just means that, people of European and African descent. But you and I both know that broad terms like White or Black or Asian can mean hundreds of thousands of different cultures. Can you imagine the list of cultures within the USA if it was given the specifics that the Afghanistan data was? It's almost impossible to even collect that amount of data. The US Census just asks for race, but the Afghanistan list shows nationality. All the people of the Afghanistan list would get lumped into the USA's data as one statistic. But on top of that. I was really talking about how the USA's larger culture is a sum of it's parts. The Great Melting Pot of the USA is so grand that today we live in a county that looks like a snapshot of the entire planet, culturally speaking.
Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_eth_gro-people-ethnic-groups |
So that's one example, now if you can provide examplesfor all other countries above the US in cultural diversity, then you might be on to something.
On top of this, the "melting pot" concept is actually seen as intolerable towards other cultures, because the concept is that cultures mix to form ONE culture, and is AGAINST diversity. Multiculturalism aims to preserve cultures and build tolerance between them. See melting pot vs multiculturalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
