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social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > melting pot

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melting pot  

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  • Few social metaphors have dominated American thought as pervasively as that of the melting pot—a key symbol for the United States. A melting pot is, literally, a vessel in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed; this metaphor compares America's sundry racial, ethnic, and religious groups to foundry-type metals that are transmuted, in the crucible of the American experience, into social gold. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Melting Pot]

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