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melting pot

noun

  1. a pot in which metals or other substances are melted or fused.
  2. a country, locality, or situation in which cultural assimilation results in blending the heritage and traditions of previously distinct ethnic groups.


melting pot

noun

  1. a pot in which metals or other substances are melted, esp in order to mix them
  2. an area in which many races, ideas, etc, are mixed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

melting pot

  1. A term expressing the view that immigrants to the United States have been fused or melted into a single people.
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Origin of melting pot1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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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.

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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.

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She said it was a dramatic shift from a predominantly Black high school in L.A. to one she described as a “melting pot.”

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The diversity of the neighborhood — a melting pot from around the world — was also part of the area’s cosmic draw.

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It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.

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