American Culture a melting pot or a salad

American Culture – a melting pot or a salad bowl?

Melting Pot or Ethnic Stew The term melting pot refers to the idea that societies formed by immigrant cultures, religions, end ethnic groups, will produce new hybrid social and cultural forms. The notion comes from the pot in which metals are melted at great heat, melding together into new compound, with great strength and other combined advantages. In comparison with assimilation, it implies the ability of new or subordinate groups to affect the values of the dominant group. Sometimes it is referred to as amalgamation, in the opposition to both assimilation and pluralism. The concept of ethnic stew is similar to that of melting pot, though the degree of cultural distinctiveness is higher in the former, however not reaching the level of the “salad bowl” thesis (different groups keep their differences, while maintaining relations among each other). .

Why melting POT?

The ruling president of the USA Barack Hussein Obama

General information - In the USA there are roughly 308 745 538 citizens, - The capital is Washington, DC. - Administrative languages include: American English, Spanish, Dakota, Hawaiian - Independence from Great Britain on the 4 th July 1776 (officially 1783)

A quick peek through history. -around 1000, temporary settlement of some Vikings in the America. -1492 – America was officially discovered by Christpher Columbus -1565 – St. Augustine - the oldest American settlement is established by the Spanish -1775 -1783 –Wars for Independence -1787 – ratifing the Contitution -1861 -1865 –Civil War in the USA (for Afro-American rights) -1917 -1918 – the USA taking part in World War the 1 st -1941 -1945 – the USA taking part in World War the 2 nd -2008 – financial crisis started in America, the first afroamerican politician to be elected as the ruling president of the USA

The Statue of Liberty – built around 1884 -1886. It is situated on the Liberty Island in New York, near the river Hudson flow. It is a symbol of liberty for the USA as well as NY and rest of the Americas. Built by the French for the immigrants settling in the USA.

Specifics -Height: 46, 5 m -Height with the risen arm: 93 m -Weight: 229 tonnes -Width: 11 m -It is made from steel and copper, inside there are two rows of spiral stairs leading to highest view point at the lantern.

A Korean diner, Taiwan dentist, cuisine from deep Asia and a pedicurist from Vietnam… need you more examples?

Spot one Japanese, one Korean, 100 Afro-americans and 12 Frenchmen

This is what happens when you get a Statue of your own…

Or maybe a salad bowl? The Chinese were the first official immigrant group in the USA. The first major documentation of the Chinese immigrants started in the XVIII century. The Chinese account for the biggest asian minority in the USA.

Other minorities include: -The Japanese, -The Poles, -the French, -The Ukrainian, -The Austrian, -The Slovakian, -Afro-americans from various countries.

Chinatown info Status: district Space: 2, 3 km² People: ab. 29 thousand. Postal code: 90012

The official entrance to Chinatown

Jackowo - Size: 5, 18 km 2 - People: ab. 43 083 - Annual income: $36 677

General Kazimierz Pułaski

Tadeusz Kościuszko

Do these faces look happy? Fullfilled?

Other symbols of the immigrants retaining their heritage

Polish parishes in the USA. St. Stanislaus Kostka 607 Humboldt Str, Brooklyn, NY 11222 tel: 718 -388 -0170, Rector - f. Rafał Kopystyński The Vikar - f. Edmund Gutowski

St. Frances De Chantal 12 -73 58 th Str, Brooklyn, NY 11219 tel: 718 -436 -6407, Rector - f. Andrzej Kurowski Vikar - f. Piotr Karaszewski

Our Lady of Ostra Brama 3000 Depot Ln, Cutchogue, NY 11935 tel: 631 -734 -6446, Rector - f. Władysław Rudnicki

Saint Matthias Church 58 -15 Catalpa Avenue Ridgewood, NY 11385 tel: 718 -821 -6447, Rector - f. Edward B. Scharfenberger Vikar - f. Łukasz Trocha, f. Andrzej Salwowski

Our Lady of Poland 35 Maple Street Southampton, NY 11968 tel: 631 -283 -0667 Rector - f. Stanisław Kondeja

Universities in the USA serve as a linking device for all immigrants who come to the States. Their main task is to find specific faculties for any individual. Many immigrants come to the USA for the sole purpouse of studying opportunities and therefore better life conditions. It goes without saying that those places accumulate different cultures as well as try to retain the general ‘spirit’ of the country.

Harvard University, Cambridge

Yale University, New Haven.

University of California, Berkeley.

Cornell University, Ithaca.

Stanford University, Stanford.

So…. which is it?

A few specks of laughter for the aftertouch.

• • • Grupa projektowa: Gabriela Zając Jarosław Grządziel Aneta Krzan Paweł Chmielecki Izabela Sołtysiak