Word: pots
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...unions can no longer deliver their members; their preachers can no longer deliver the Negroes; and the ward captains can no longer deliver the precincts." In truth, the increasingly sophisticated and independent U.S. voter has not been "deliverable," in Sorensen's terms, since the decline of melting-pot politics (see TIME ESSAY...
...short, economic interests have displaced ethnic interests. But sociologists insist, with some justice, that this new melt in the melting pot extends chiefly to the political and economic spheres. In other areas, what they call "structural separation" persists. According to a theory first propounded by Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion...
...this suggests that the old notion of America as a melting pot was a romantic idea about something that never really happened. "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men," wrote that perceptive and enthusiastic observer of the American scene, St. John de Crevecoeur, in 1782. Emerson elaborated and sustained the vision, and by 1908, Israel Zangwill, an admiring English Jew, was completely carried away: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all races of Europe are merging and reforming . . . Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians-into...
From the viewpoints of the politician and the sociologist, the minorities in the crucible continued to behave separately and distinctly. Only in the last decade, nearly 200 years after its enunciation, has the melting pot finally begun to perform as longtime myth would have...
...things it has to teach is that, in the American melting pot, complete amalgamation is probably not possible and certainly not desirable. But the process of blending continues, and the mixture grows more subtle all the time...