The melting pot premise has got to go. If we must use metaphors, the salad bowl is a much better premise. Everyone gets to keep their own flavor. When brought together, instead of a “bland product,” ...

Melting pot or salad bowl? For decades now, these two contestants have been slugging it out in the contest for most appropriate metaphor for how the cultures and ethnicities of America fit together.

Told of his friend’s analogy, Amer offered a correction: “I like salad bowl better than melting pot. Everybody loses their own identity in the melting pot. In a salad bowl, everything retains ...

Let’s swap out the "melting pot" analogy for a salad instead ... If it was a big bowl of mush with one flavor, it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting or as fun. That’s how I view my faith ...

In "Americanize Me," we're getting a taste of our melting pot, salad bowl —whatever your preferred metaphor. When it comes to Thanksgiving, most Americans are used to a storyline that isn't ...

SINGAPORE – As Singapore enters its next phase of development, the question it needs to ask itself is what identity it wants, and how it then keeps its traditions alive. While the Republic is ...