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melting-pot

A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | 362 words | Copyright

melting-pot The idea that societies formed by immigrants from many different cultures, religions, and ethnic groups, will produce new hybrid social and cultural forms. The notion comes from the pot in which metals are melted at great heat, sometimes melding together into new compounds, with greater strength and other combined advantages. See also ASSIMILATION.

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