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Melting pot 'Melting pot' means a place where people from many different ethnic groups or cultures form a united society.The idea comes from heating metals in a container.When they melt, the metals unite and become something new and stronger.The term has been used to describe the United States as a nation created from people who came here from many different countries.A Frenchman who was living in America expressed the idea more than 200 years ago.J. Hector de Crevecoeur published a book called 'Letters From an American Farmer' in 1782.He wrote that America had people from many different countries.He said that they would become a new people whose work would one day change the world.For many years, Americans generally accepted the idea of their country as a melting pot.They welcomed immigrants from many nations.Yet some of those immigrants criticized the melting pot idea.They felt they were forced to lose their culture and language in order to be accepted in America.Other people also criticized the idea.They said the aim of the melting pot is to make different cultures disappear into the one representing the largest group.New groups of immigrants from Asia and Latin America are changing the United States today.Some are resisting learning American culture and language.Reports say some Americans fear that the nation is separating into many groups that have no shared purpose.Others say the melting pot is no longer changing the nation's immigrants,but the immigrants are changing America.Some experts who study immigration say they now compare American society not with a melting pot,but with a salad bowl.A salad is made of many different foods.They each keep their own taste while being part of a successful product.In this way, cultural groups keep their customs and language and are still part of American society.| 重點(diǎn)單詞 |
| 查看全部解釋 | | bowl | [b?ul] | n. 碗,，碗狀物，季后賽,，圓形露天劇場(chǎng)
v. | | melt | [melt] | vi. 融化,，熔化,，消散
vt. 使融化，使熔 | | describe | [dis'kraib] | vt. 描述,，畫(huà)(尤指幾何圖形),，說(shuō)成 | | container | [k?n'tein?] | n. 容器,，集裝箱 |
大熔爐 大熔爐是指這樣一個(gè)地方,，在那里來(lái)自不同種族或文化的人們形成了一個(gè)和諧統(tǒng)一的社會(huì)群體。此概念源自把各種金屬放到冶煉容器里一起加熱這一工序,。當(dāng)這些金屬熔化時(shí),，它們就會(huì)混合在一起變成更加堅(jiān)硬的新物體。這是一個(gè)用來(lái)描述美國(guó)的術(shù)語(yǔ)—因?yàn)槊绹?guó)是一個(gè)由來(lái)自很多不同國(guó)家的人共同創(chuàng)建的民族,。200多年前,，一位住在美國(guó)的法國(guó)人就表達(dá)了這種思想。赫克托.圣約翰?克雷佛克在1782年出版了一本名叫《美國(guó)農(nóng)人書(shū)簡(jiǎn)》的書(shū),，書(shū)里寫(xiě)道美國(guó)有很多來(lái)自不同國(guó)家的人,，他們會(huì)演變成一個(gè)新的民族，并且他們付出的勞動(dòng)終有一天會(huì)改變這個(gè)世界,。多年以來(lái),，美國(guó)人普遍地接受了把他們國(guó)家比喻為大熔爐的思想。他們歡迎來(lái)自不同國(guó)家的移民,。然而,，有些移民批判這種熔爐的思想，他們感覺(jué)自己為了融入美國(guó)而被迫失去他們的文化和語(yǔ)言,。其他的人也批判這種思想,，認(rèn)為大熔爐旨在讓不同的文化由于逐漸被一種代表著最大群體的文化取代而消失無(wú)蹤。現(xiàn)如今,，來(lái)自亞洲和拉丁美洲的新移民群體正改變著美國(guó),。其中一些人抵制學(xué)習(xí)美國(guó)文化和語(yǔ)言。據(jù)報(bào)道，一些美國(guó)人擔(dān)心這個(gè)民族將會(huì)分裂稱很多沒(méi)有共同目標(biāo)的群體,，其他人則認(rèn)為文化熔爐不再改變著美國(guó)的移民,，而是移民正在改變著美國(guó)。一些研究移民的專家表示,，他們現(xiàn)在把美國(guó)比喻成一個(gè)色拉碗,，而不是大熔爐。色拉由很多不同的食物搭配而成,。每種食物都保持自己不同的味道,，單獨(dú)分開(kāi)時(shí)也是一種很成功的產(chǎn)品。這樣的話,，文化群體都可以保持他們自身的風(fēng)俗和語(yǔ)言,，而且也仍然是美國(guó)文化的一部分。
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