Assessing ethnic issues in today's America 24 Articles

by Christine Briton-Jones

Race issues in San Diego County Introduction My community is San Diego County. It is a great blend of cultures with very high socioeconomic status families and very low socioeconomic status people from my perspective...read more

by Manju Weber

I remember as a young girl travelling on a crowded city bus in London, surrounded by other Indians like myself, and white English people, staring at the coloreds with not very pleasant expressions on their bland faces. I w...read more

by Bob Schmidt

In the 200+ year history of the United States, an interesting mix of ethnicities has resulted. Cultures have intermingled to create the fabric of today's America. There have been problems, but American citizens today ...read more

by Christina A. Armani

There are many ethnic issues that America needs to address as a nation. The three big ethnic issues in America are racism, discrimination, and lack of acceptance for non-Americans. As a first generation immigrant, I experi...read more

by Michael Bettencourt

Imagination and Identity Even a little time spent by any playwright thumbing through the Dramatists Sourcebook or Market Insight reveals a topography of what I call "script ghettos": women playwrights, Hispanic (or Lati...read more

by Sangay Glass

It has been my observation that over time people begin to view anyone different from themselves as "they". It's a label that instantly binds a group of people whether "they" are rich, poor, black, white, Jews, Muslims, and...read more

by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

The problem with the melting pot is the dictum "be like me behave like me to be an American but don't visit my house or socialize with me". This has been a chronic problem since the beginning of the USA. Even those minorit...read more

by Gary C. Gibson

America was built up with the world's elite seeking escape from oppressive political conditions in their own nations, even the slaves were an elite having survived the horrible culling of captivity and a terrible sea tran...read more

by Roger Passman

Beyond the melting pot is an interesting view of the issue of race and culture in America today. Here, then, is my two-cents, just another way of looking at the same issues; a slightly different, though compatible, lens. ...read more

by Zach Bigalke

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who come here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage t...read more

by Will Kester

As I read the articles on this titled, "Beyond the melting pot," I applaud the essay, for documented content; enjoyed the third-place article, which made a positive point; but liked the salad bowl idea as opposed to the mi...read more

by Shaun T. Koh

A mother sat in the bleachers at a regional wrestling tournament this past week with her three girls adopted from Russia. In a match involving a young Russian immigrant named Alex, the mother said she heard someone enco...read more

by Libbie Reed

I don't have ethnic issues in the usual sense. I LIKE our differences. What I have a problem with is the "melting pot". I like the fact that the world has a wealth of different languages, that people have different be...read more

by Fb Publications

W. E. B. DuBois notion of double-consciousness applied to African Americans can be aptly applied to many ethnic Americans who must be "loyal" to both their ethnic groups and ethnic identities, languages, and traditions, wh...read more

by Jackie D

This was a touching topic. I am first generation Italian/Sicilian. I cherish my culture and have very fond memories of my childhood and the celebrations of being "Italian". Traditions during the Holiday's, the food we a...read more

by Dana Toutloff

Ethnic issues in today's America, hmm. What's the issue? Wouldn't that be a nice question to be able to ask ourselves? Instead, it's a common topic, hashed and rehashed and never put to rest. At what point will race, ances...read more

by Woody Biscoe

We humans are a remarkable species. Upon entering this unsure and threatening world we come already equipped with an arsenal of instinctual behavior patterns designed for both procreation and protection. Yet, soon after t...read more

by Sandra Lynn

I and other Canadians have envied the United States, regarding the "Melting Pot" ideal when it comes to immigration. I believe it promotes harmony among so many different ethnic backgrounds, living united in one country. ...read more

by Angela Kirk

To go to a different country, you will realize one thing mainly that sets the Untied States apart from everywhere else, ethnic differences. When you go to Japan, the Majority is Japanese people, with their own culture, the...read more

by Bayla Maya

America the land of opportunity has often been referred to as a "melting pot." The "melting pot" is a term introduced in a 1908 play by Israel Angwill (Salins 1997, p1). It is symbolic of the idea of immigrants from oth...read more