Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:
The Great Melting Pot of America is one of my favorite things about. So many people from so many other cultures coming together to make a new culture.
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Huh? You make it sound like no other country embraces multiculturalism.
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I'm not sure how anyone could possibly interpret what he said the way you interpreted it.
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You're right. Melting pot theory is a LOT more intolerable towards different cultures when compared to multiculturalism.
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I disagree. It's impossible to have multiculturalism without some degree of melting together taking place.
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It's pre-1970 attitudes like that that encourages intolerance for cultural difference from both sides. As such, you'll notice that the "melting pot" theory has been scrapped in favour of "salad bowl". I encourage you to research the benfits of the latter over the former, and see the many examples where it has been a tremendous success. (Toronto, Melbourne, etc.)
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I encourage you to learn about Toronto before citing it as a reason to imply that somebody is intolerant or say they have a pre-1970 attitude. Have you ever been there?
Think about the term "melting pot" and what it implies. Your attitude would have people segregated into a bunch of little ethnic enclaves, never interacting with other ethnicities. That's not the way it works, at least in a city like Toronto.
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Once again, do some research before making wild assumptions about multiculturalism. Multiculturalism does NOT require segregation, and on top of that, interaction between cultures does NOT imply an erosion of cultures. That's where your fallacy lies.
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Your definition of multicultralism is just newspeak for melting pot. There's nothing wrong with being a melting pot. You're caught on the euphemism treadmill.
You've also made assumptions about me that are wildly incorrect, ignorant, and outright insulting. I will not be discussing this with you any further.
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If you wish to remain ignorant to the facts, then I suggest that you do not argue sides. There is a clear definition of multiculturalism and a clear definition of melting pot, and they are NOT the same. On top of this, America does not have any multicultural policy at the federal level, so I seriously don't see how you can think that the melting pot is something to boast about.
For starters, melting pot is one of the main sources of American ignorance towards other countries. Things like "I don't NEED to know about other countries because we have them here", like eating the American bastardised version of pizza or chinese food makes them completely in tune with respective cutures...Secondly, melting pot encourages the formation of an individual culture from a mix of other cultures, effectively destroying those cultures. Multiculturalism is the opposite; it brings different cultures together while encouragining said cultures to stick to their cultural roots.
