Salad Bowl

America is called the melting pot because there are people from everywhere around the world, they have different cultures, different customs, but when they come to America, they are one, one nation. However, America is not a melting pot, it is a salad bowl. A melting pot implies that although we have many different people from many different cultures here in America, they have all adapted to our culture. This however, is simply not true. We have people come here from different cultures but they retain their own cultures and let them flourish here in America. We have things such as China town and little Italy. I myself have a strong Persian influence and grew up surrounded by a Persian culture. I went to a Farsi school when I was little, my family would always shop in local Persian markets, and I was surrounded by Persian kids as a child. America is amazing because you can be American and Chinese here. Or American and Indian, or German, or even Persian and it would be normal. But in other countries such as India or Germany, or Iran the population is mostly one people and one culture. That’s why America is the most unique country at the least.