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Critics of the AHC have accused the member hospitals of proceeding too slowly with plans for the new medical facility. Glazer said last night, however, that he believes work has gone as quickly as could be expected...
...idea was not. From Crevecoeur on, Americans have embraced the concept of the melting pot to affirm their peculiar destiny and to reassure themselves that despite the diversity of its people the United States is or will be one nation indivisible. In Beyond the Melting Pot Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan challenge the very idea of the melting pot through an examination of the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City...
Admitting at the start that New York's polyglot hodge-podge is unique in its complexity, Glazer and Moynihan argue that New York's example is not without parallel and that the nature of its ethnic groups offers a perspective on America's development and future. To illustrate their argument they first describe the five major ethnic groups and then try to fit them into the jigsaw puzzle of New York life...
Also the authors do not really succeed in their attempt to relate ethnicity to the rest of the city's life. Themes are left dangling like unhappy participles, and Glazer and Moynihan blithely neglect the large proportion of the city that belongs to no easily definable minority group. Much more importantly, they fail to outline the effect of a rising middle class on ethnic identities...
...poverty, will develop as the major source of group identification (in New York City and the nation), joining the Irish and Italians wth those already part of the American mainstream, dividing the Jews, and providing Negroes and Puerto Ricans a stronger sense of community. Although the melting pot, as Glazer and Moynihan point out, doe not melt away conflict and produce uniformity, it does continually recast the nature of the conflict...