The United States is often referred to as a "melting pot." What does this phrase mean to you? Why do you think the United States works this way? In a short paragraph, use at least three examples to support your answer.

This phrase "The Melting Pot" is all of our cultures and ethnicity mixed into one. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European immigration to the United States became increasingly diverse and increased substantially in numbers. Beginning in the 1890s, large numbers of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups such as the Italians, Jews, and Poles arrived. Many returned to Europe but those who remained merged into the cultural melting pot, adopting American lifestyles. n the early 20th century, the meaning of the recently popularized concept of the melting pot was subject to ongoing debate which centered on the issue of immigration. The debate surrounding the concept of the melting pot centered on how immigration impacted American society and on how immigrants should be approached. The melting pot was equated with either the acculturation or the total assimilation of European immigrants, and the debate centered on the differences between these two ways of approaching immigration: "Was the idea to melt down the immigrants and then pour the resulting, formless liquid into the preexisting cultural and social molds modeled on Anglo-Protestants like Henry Ford and Woodrow Wilson, or was the idea instead that everyone, Mayflower descendants and Sicilians, Ashkenazi and Slovaks, would act chemically upon each other so that all would be changed, and a new compound would emerge

The united states being referred to as a melting pot is talking about the many cultures of american society and how they blend together in this giant cultural bath. The U. S. works in this way because it was a nation built off of immigrants. When the Irish potato famine happened it sent waves of irish to america looking for factory jobs, with them they brought their culture with them, be it language, food, clothing, ect ... This in turn led to them teaching others, through marriage or even unintentionally, about their culture and vice versa.