Upsetting the Melting Pot

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Fiery colors dance around the citrus-tasting room, leaving a trail of vibrant fabric and food in its wake. In the aromatic swirls of spice and zest, cheers of “Feliz año Nuevo!” fruity as succulent oranges fill the room so carefully decorated with bright greens and yellows. It is the New Year in New Mexico, and this family is celebrating according to their traditions just like the rest of the USA. This is the picture of something very important to our society. It is multiculturalism and diversity, in heritage and traditions, and gives our country equality, peace, and new viewpoints. Thus, the most important tradition in the United States of America is the freedom for each person to practice his or her own traditions. The melting pot, by definition, was a boiling down of cultures and personal background to a white, homogeneous, European-American soup that says to speak American when you are in America and endorses the 2.5 kids and white picket fence “dream” that we so determinately cherish. Since the 1970’s, that dream has been unsettled. The people of minority, who have had thei...

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