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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Melting pot"”.
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Resisting the Melting Pot Through Ethnic Newspapers: A Case Study of the Irish Echo
This dissertation is a case study of the Irish Echo, an Irish ethnic weekly newspaper that began publishing in New York City in 1928. The Irish ethnic community is unique because it operates within two cultural spheres: Irish society and American society. The purpose of this case study is to …
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The Idea Melting Pot (IMP) : an openly-editable web-based community learning resource for builders
This thesis discusses the development, use, and potential future for an openly-editable web-based community learning resource for builders. The idea for a resource such as this and how it might be structured stems from Seymour Papert's vision of a Constructopedia: [...] a browsable, interactive …
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I am the melting pot: Multiple identity integration among gay/bisexual/questioning male ethnic minority adolescents
For adolescents who belong to multiple minority groups, such as those who are ethnic and sexual minorities, they must develop both their ethnic and sexual identities as they develop their overall identity (Chung & Katayama, 1998). The goal of this study was to examine the ways in which ethnic and …
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Power of the Southern melting pot: analysis of Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus as Southern folklore and cultural appropriation
In this paper, I address the controversy of origins surrounding Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus collections. Based on James O. Young’s definitions of appropriation, I establish Harris’s work as evidence of cultural content appropriation of European, African, and Native American folklore. Harris …
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Assimilating hybridized architecture
… Anglo Conformity, Cultural Pluralism, and Melting Pot. From these theories, it is suspected that the Melting Pot model has the most potential for generating unconventional program usage while being the most challenging model in reconciling pre-determined functions. The thesis uses the …
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An examination of two methods of teaching culture and a comparison of their effects on ethnocentrism among college students of German
… a liberation of the mind, the end of the melting pot mentality, and an appreciation of foreign cultures.
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Segregation by design? : the evolution of an Islamic community in Michigan
Today, the notion of the melting pot can no longer explain the process of assimilation in American society. The current cultural scene is comprised of a mainstream group and a large number of subcultural enclaves. The coexistence of these groups leads to tensions between the mainstream culture and …
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Model as a thinking tool (an architectural complex in an urban district)/
… are convening in New York City. It is called a melting pot. Everyone mingles there without losing his own characteristics. lt is a big house which contains gardens, paths, rooms and millions of people. On East 14th street, there is an open block which could be a small city containing a park, …
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Red Lake Falls, Minnesota: A sociolinguistic survey
… a century for the mechanism of the American "melting pot" to have done its work, a relatively large number of people in the area still use the French language in their homes and describe themselves and their communities as "French." </p> <p> "The background of the community and the survival of …
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Understanding informal segregation : racial and spatial identities among the Indian minority of Mokopane
South Africa is a melting pot and a meeting place for a multitude of "races", representing an optimal arena for understanding the psychology of contact and desegregation. This study focuses on the spatial arrangement of minority identities, through continued informal segregation, among the Indian …
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William Colmer and the Politics of the New Deal Labor Legislation 1933-1940
… he represented. District Six was Mississippi's melting pot and contained the largest labor force and the most diverse industries in the state. Also, the presence of organized labor set District Six apart from other Mississippi congressional districts. While the conservatism of Colmer's later …
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"Struggles to Become ""Americans"": Historical and Contemporary Experiences of Asian Pacific American Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Fiction, 1945--1999"
… and mediocre writing. Most of the melting pot books are mediocre creations as well and contain stereotypical images. One third of the 270 books are culturally conscious books that have Asian Pacific American as main characters and detail the richness of growing up simultaneously …
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
… such as Fernando Ortiz’s transculturation, the melting-pot metaphor (both in the US and in Germany), the European Willkommenskultur, and the now popular cultural appropriation. Through concrete examples – such as the literary encounter between the German ethnographer Theodor Koch-Grünberg and …
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A Place in the Sun: the Linguistic Consequences of Lifestyle Migration to Southern Spain
… upon two distinct varieties coming together in a melting pot situation, with eventual stability. This speech community is fluid and turbulent. People are joining and leaving the community constantly. The study aims to reveal that despite previous research claims that the process of koinéisation …
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… of the Sasanian Empire of pre-Islamic Iran, a melting-pot of heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities, dominated by Zoroastrian culture, the Babylonian Talmud, the culmina- tion of generations of Rabbinic oral discussion of Torah law, was born. Contemporary divinatory practices prevalent …
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Unity in Diversity: The Scholarly Community of the Ḥaramayn in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
… and flourish, given the Hijaz’s nature as a melting pot of traditions; this broadened the space for tolerance and encouraged ʿulamāʾ to be open to various perspectives. This research shows that the status of scholarship in the Ottoman Hijaz was equivalent to the sophistication of Cairo, …
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La construcción y el papel de la identidad vasca en la literatura vasco americana
… would blend and, in part, resist the American melting pot ethos of the 1950s. In contrast to this generation's approach to resolving identity conflicts, the third and fourth generation of Basque American authors, living in a more ethnically diverse milieu, incorporate much more complex identity …
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Interracial Friendships in the US: A Better Understanding of Presence and Variation
… Black/non-Black), the tri-racial divide, and the melting pot. Hypotheses regarding friendship selection and formation are derived from the four racial theories. Methods. Using the Portraits of American Life Study from 2006 (n=2610) and 2012 (n=1314), I conduct multivariate analyses to test my …
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Challenging Mental Health Concerns among Black Caribbean Immigrants
… the U.S., this region can also be considered a melting pot of cultures, with the Afro-Caribbean population widely scattered across these island nations. Important to this investigation is the large diaspora population of Black Caribbean immigrants (BCs) in the U.S. who are often viewed as …
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