Is America the Melting Pot or the Salad Bowl?

Aleona Lund

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Sandra Muegge

March 20, 2017

Is America the Melting Pot or the Salad Bowl?

The United States is sometimes referred to as “melting pot”, “land of opportunity” and “The land of Free”. Not only is America referred to as melting pot for freedom, but also through time, generations have melted together and blended as one. We do act as a salad bowl however because sometime other cultures don’t mix and immigrants will tend to keep their own basic beliefs of life to themselves. These are terms that recognize the way that the country is comprised of a wide assortment of people groups from various parts of the world. These names from numerous points of view symbolize a shot of "fresh starts" or “new beginnings” to a few people who wish to come to America. Migration is by and large perceived as a financial advantage, regardless of cases that outside specialists take occupations from subjects and “inhabitant outsiders”. Our content reveals to us that "various reviews have been directed and recommend that general wages for nationals' expansion when migrant laborers fill jobs that others are not qualified to perform or those jobs that others simply choose not to do. Countries tend to welcome pariahs who convey an advantage to the general public and economy. There is "roughly 100 million individuals that live outside of their nation of origin around the world" (Nowak and Laird, 2010).

However, illegal intersection of the Mexican American border represents a few issues for the United States. The individuals who are entering the nation unlawfully some of the time enter the United States with false personalities and false records. Others enter the United States pregnant in would like to have their kid in America so their unborn child will be an American national. Numerous settlers enter the nation just to sneak in illegal medications and some enter so as to escape the wrongdoing in their nation. Whatever their reasons are for coming to America, we need to utilize the utilitarianism hypothesis to deal with this circumstance. "Individuals move for monetary reasons and additionally sociopolitical and religious reasons" (Nowak and Laird, 2010). We can't give a place of refuge or a familiar object for everybody, except we can pass laws that will create a more ideal result for everybody. Despite the fact that numerous illicit workers are allowed to go to schools in the United States and get benefits, this does not mean everybody ought to be conceded citizenship.

The "2,000 miles of fringe" between the United States and Mexico is more than only a boundary" (Johnson and Trujillo, 2011). The outskirt speaks to numerous

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