Multiculturalism in America

The Americans are supposed to be the result of the mixture of all the peoples and cultures that make up the USA and so the metaphor “melting pot” was mostly used and thought to be very accurate. Nevertheless, the different peoples didn’t mingle completely so as to make a single people with a single culture. Actually, elements of every race and culture have mixed up to a certain extent though the different ethnic groups still tend to keep their differences as a means of asserting their cultural identity. That’s why the metaphor “Salad bowl” seems more appropriate nowadays than “melting pot”.