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melting pot
noun
- a pot in which metals or other substances are melted or fused.
- a country, locality, or situation in which cultural assimilation results in blending the heritage and traditions of previously distinct ethnic groups.
melting pot
noun
- a pot in which metals or other substances are melted, esp in order to mix them
- an area in which many races, ideas, etc, are mixed
melting pot
- A term expressing the view that immigrants to the United States have been fused or melted into a single people.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of melting pot1
Example Sentences
The book talks about the difference between Israel Zangwill, who exalted the “melting pot” as the ideal, and Horace Kallen, who coined the term “pluralism” as an alternative.
Those are the big structural issues, but Test rugby is a melting pot of grand plans and tiny details from which coaches have to forge results.
She said it was a dramatic shift from a predominantly Black high school in L.A. to one she described as a “melting pot.”
The diversity of the neighborhood — a melting pot from around the world — was also part of the area’s cosmic draw.
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
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