The humble dish of hummus represents, quite literally, the melting pot of Israeli culture.
"That's the melting pot of what New York is, " says percussionist Mauro Refosco.
If he fails in these early season conditions, it will all be back in the melting pot.
But the melting pot is still bubbling: adult immigrants work, and their children virtually all speak English.
On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.
Before the web, the metaphor of the melting pot where individual ethnic identities broke down and recombined into a new national identity made some sense.
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But no matter what our ages or how Americanized we were or were not, everybody seemed to know that nothing good could come from stirring up the melting pot.
With demographic changes reinforcing a permanent ethnic tribalism that abjures the melting pot, the likelihood that our country will ever recover its founding values has vanished as thoroughly as our respect for the dead white men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to make our way of life possible.
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All of the actors do admirable work (especially Ribisi, who's the key element of a gruesome, truly heartbreaking scene) but this grab-bag sampling of The Great Melting Pot is a staple of the kind of war movie that Spielberg is supposed to be deconstructing.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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Silicon Valley may be in fact the new melting pot socially, ethnically, and intellectually capable of representing the change we wish to see in the world.
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Basque country is the reverse melting pot--let's all be together, work together, but let's not melt.
Cao says he understands the "melting pot" nature of his adopted state.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, I certainly hope that we all embrace them because, you know, we are the melting-pot nation, and nobody gets instant citizenship.
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So it is especially enlightening to hear how he chose Ma Cocotte's furnishings, many of which are from the melting-pot period of the 1940s up to 1955, when Scandinavian and especially American influences began to filter into France.
Unfortunately, these players weren't able to build on the adventurous spirit of Melting Pot: The group disbanded shortly after the album's release.
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And, in the days that followed, someone would write an angry letter to the editor complaining that these people weren't melting into the pot.
Muslim Spain was the equitable melting-pot of which America can only dream.
Indeed their relationship with America, Israel, and the West, and their melting pot society has made them the repeated target of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, and the authorities are willing to do what is necessary to protect their people.
The island is a melting pot of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other Asian cultures that are expressed deliciously in the foods sold at the open-air hawker centres.
Gone are the aspirations to turn the ICA into a multi-cultural melting pot of ideas, which is down with the kids and up with the latest beats from the street.
And even back on the south coast, hidden behind the heat and horn-honking of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, you will also find a trove of architectural treasures, many legacies of the country's melting-pot religious heritage.
Its simple, skeletal tunes align with the marathon musical adventures of the times: "Melting Pot" (audio), for example, lasts more than eight minutes.
At its core, the program believes in creating a melting pot of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives while also maintaining a context of openness that doesn't shy away from experimentation and failure.
It is said that it got going at the end of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires' brothels, where a melting pot of poor immigrants and country folk danced together while waiting their turn to slip behind the bedroom door.
Melting-pot institutions like the U.S. military prefer not to dwell too much on the particulars of a soldier's culture: Much of their purpose is to substitute personal belief with common standards of behavior.
That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.
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