melting pot
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.
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How to use melting pot in a sentence
A patchwork network of vaccination—highly vaccinated populations side-by-side with unvaccinated populations—creates a melting pot for the virus to simmer into something stronger, something worse.
How the Coronavirus Stays One Step Ahead of Us - Issue 108: Change | Megan Scudellari | November 3, 2021 | NautilusAmerica, the land of the ethno-racial melting pot, is once again facing what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal optimistically called The American Dilemma in 1944.
George Floyd Protests Show How The US Has Retreated From Its Position As A World Leader | LGBTQ-Editor | June 9, 2020 | No Straight NewsIt's often said that America is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities.
What It's Like To Be Ambiguously Ethnic | The Daily Beast Video | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Levant is already a far cry from the cosmopolitan melting pot it once was.
Beirut Letter: In Lebanon, Fighting ISIS With Culture and Satire | Kim Ghattas | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis fairytale of a cosmopolitan-cultural-melting-pot that is the envy of the international community certainly has its charms.
In the great Caribbean melting pot, one group is largely overlooked: Jewish refugees who settled centuries ago.
“This is a melting pot for startup experimentation,” says Evans.
Here at or toward the end of the Neolithic period was the “melting-pot” for the fusion of these peoples and their cultures.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerThe half-formed sphere in the melting pot joined and the entire building rang with the shrill screams.
The Whispering Spheres | Russell Robert WinterbothamThe college plate and the jewels left by pious benefactors were stolen, and went to the melting-pot.
Oxford | Andrew LangThe beautiful old college plate began its journey to the melting-pot.
Oxford | Andrew LangFor as time had gone on the world had beheld the colossal spectacle of a huge nation in the melting pot.
Robin | Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Dictionary definitions for melting pot
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
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Cultural definitions for melting pot
A term expressing the view that immigrants to the United States have been fused or melted into a single people.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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