The Melting Pot - PowerPoint

							The Melting Pot
       What’s the Melting Pot
• Another expression for America, which
  developed in the 19th century

• This expression describes the action of
  forming the American nation out of
  different ethnic groups and immigrants into
  a new race of men.
 The concept of the Melting Pot
• Based on the conception, that every
  immigrant left his prejudices and habits
  behind.

• All ethnic backgrounds disappeared in this
  melting process

• Everyone had to be ready to form a new
  union.
      The Meeting of Nations
• America was seen as a save harbour for
  refugees and imigrants from all parts of the
  world.

• Massive immigration started.

• Most immigrants from southern- and
  eastern Europe
      The Meeting of Nations
• Population allmost doubled in 1920

• Every third American being either an
  immigrant, the child of immigrants or a
  child with one foreign-born parent.
  The Imigration Comission’s
           Opinion


• Care must be taken that the process of
  assimilation is not to difficult

• Assimilation only a matter of time
  Problems of the assimilation
  Main Problem:
• Many people couldn’t read or even speak
  English
Measures to solve the problem of
          assimilation
• Intensiv adult education
     The situation has changed
• USA a multi-cultural and multi-national
  society

• The hope that all immigrants will melt
  together in one nation was a dream

• The inhabitants of america today may all be
     The situation has changed
• Able to read and speak English, but:
  – People of one Ethnic group live together
  – people live in certain groups (nation)and
    celebrate their national festivals
  – Immigrants didn’t give up their cultural habits
    and prejudices
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