NOUN
- an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated
- a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
How To Use melting pot In A Sentence
- One trend to emerge is known as cross-cultural marketing, aimed at a general market that may be more of a mosaic than a melting pot. NYT > Home Page
- This may explain why during the 20th century relatively homogeneous Scandanavia was able to build a welfare state, where melting pot America baulked.
- When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking. The Volokh Conspiracy » Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently
- It put me in mind of those culinary categories for which the term "fusion" is a little too facile, the ones where the melting pot has been simmering so long that the stew takes on an identity of its own. Archive 2009-07-01
- This paper considers a keyword of current discourse on racial integration and ethnic pluralism in its original context by investigating Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot (1908).
- The book is a melting pot of information, with anecdotes, photographs and recipes ranging from tons of game to the scones we now know the Queen feeds to the corgis.
- Hindu society has been the meeting point as well as the melting pot of as many spiritual visions as the human psyche is capable of springing up spontaneously.
- “When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.” — The Volokh Conspiracy » The Democratic Strategist misdescribes some legal issues
- It was my mother's guilty pleasure, which my sister and I shared – guilty, because being Silesian in Warsaw wasn't easy then; Silesia being the southern region with a large German population, a melting pot of Polish, German and Czech people, with its own, now sadly dying, hilarious dialect, a mixture of all three languages. Family life
- A melting pot of nationalities jostle for prime parking spots for their cars and caravanettes.
