Melting Pot Quotes

In the American ‘melting pot,’ identity politics wants to smash that pot – to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem – and I lived there almost five years – most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

I’ve always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You’re not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We’re in the melting pot of America.

Online is such an important platform… it’s all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It’s just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it’s exciting.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak’s rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

L.A. is such a melting pot.

My theory is because I’m Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I’m the melting pot.

I grew up surrounded by all types of cultures – French, Indian, Arabic – a melting pot of cultures, sounds, foods, people, and religions. It opened my eyes early, and I’m grateful for that. It’s not about success in one area; it’s about exploring the world musically and spending time in those places whenever you can.

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Coachella is a melting pot of cultures, vibes, style, and, of course, music. I look forward to it every year.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people – the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people – they’re all here.

Hawaii is a melting pot of people and my school specifically has a lot of diversity that personally inspires me in everything I do.

Here’s an idea: How about just ‘Americans?’ That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our ‘separateness’ is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

I grew up in such a melting pot. There’s more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It’s great to be part of this wonderful country.

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

My family’s very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese – everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers – to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that’s something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

This is a great country, and it’s a melting pot. People shouldn’t judge other people by the color of their skin, their church, or the area where they reside.

Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.

In Florida, we’re the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

In the military, we are thrown into a melting pot of cultures and communities and we disagree a lot on how to accomplish the mission, but when it comes time to get the work done, we focus our energy on accomplishing the mission.

Los Angeles is a melting pot for all different cultures and creativity. It’s really a ground to cultivate artists.

Americans don’t have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It’s really cool: you’ll see so many different things.

It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura – it was an absolute Americana audience… people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists.

It’s a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it’s pretty amazing.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment – you need visuals that represent that.

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don’t think that we use that. We don’t talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don’t use that. I think we should talk about who we are – that melting pot that we’ve become.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

I love Caribbean food. It’s a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

It sounds stupid, but there’s nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that’s older than 100 years old. I think London – not to sound pretentious – like New York, it’s a big melting pot for all things and it’s just got this energy that you can’t find anywhere else.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there’s this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

There’s a lot to love about America – freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism – all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

The best thing about being from Britain is that it’s a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn’t imagine coming from anywhere else.

Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things – hot dogs and apple pie – and ignoring the Chinese offerings.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It’s really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

London’s got less of a group identity because it’s a melting pot and it’s bigger. Whereas if you’re from Glasgow or Newcastle or wherever, the group atmosphere is already there.

My schools were quite diverse – those who serve their country come from every race and religion – and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

Not only is New York City the nation’s melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

We talk about America as a melting pot, where you can’t turn salt into pepper. Then you got too much pepper. You need the salt. You need the paprika. You need the broth.

I feel like Texas high schools, when you consider the melting pot that exists in Texas, do a fairly impressive job. No education process is perfect, but I think that, with plenty of room to improve, they do an admirable job when you compare them to the rest of the field.

We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it’s purported to be. Black lives are unknown in some pla’ces.

Tottenham was a dope place to grow up because it’s so community-based. It’s a melting pot of cultures. I’ll always be a north London girl.

Virginia Beach is just such a melting pot for so many different things, and they just have so many influences. I would always say that the area definitely influences Play Cloths. The area itself just has so many influences, whether it be fashion, music, everything.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.