Now what happens then in Tony, to move to a slightly different way of thinking about it, is we can see that it's a global story masked as a story of hybridity in the American melting pot.

而在托尼里边发生的事情，若换用一种稍微不同的方式来思考它，我们能够看到，它是一个全球性故事，以美国大熔炉里的混合性为特点。

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The United States is a melting pot, people from all over the world may have American citizenship.

美国是个大熔炉，来自世界各地的人都可能拥有美国国籍。

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His open-mindedness put him at ease in America's melting pot, and at odds with the rhetoric about values that pervades American politics.

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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.

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In addition, the American culture that they package seems to have a universal appeal that may have something to do with America's melting pot or simply with Hollywood's commercial cunning.

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