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What is The Salad Bowl Project?
There's a lot of confusion about immigration in the United States. And it's no wonder why. The world is growing smaller and there are plenty of scary things that we don't want coming into our country. Politicians give conflicting information, political parties take radical stances, and everyone is concerned about their safety.
The Salad Bowl Project aims to give voters a simple, factual, and easy to understand run down of the U.S. migration debate. Learn about the history of migration in the United States and get a better understanding of why people come here in the first place. Read about the five reasons that people vote anti-immigrant and discover if they're fact or fiction. Engage with real stories from real migrants about their migration experiences. Then, if you're still looking for more, explore the non-partisan and bi-partisan sources we found that helped us figure out where we stand on this confusing issue that we call the migration debate.
The Salad Bowl Project aims to give voters a simple, factual, and easy to understand run down of the U.S. migration debate. Learn about the history of migration in the United States and get a better understanding of why people come here in the first place. Read about the five reasons that people vote anti-immigrant and discover if they're fact or fiction. Engage with real stories from real migrants about their migration experiences. Then, if you're still looking for more, explore the non-partisan and bi-partisan sources we found that helped us figure out where we stand on this confusing issue that we call the migration debate.
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diversity becomes America
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diversity is America
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Have you heard of the melting pot analogy?
It goes like this: the United States is a country where immigrants from different cultures around the world come together. Like the ingredients in a melting pot, each person contributes something special to the mixture. Then, with a little bit of heat, the ingredients melt together forming the United States—a unified culture made unique (and more delicious) by the diversity of ingredients added to it. |
The melting pot is a great analogy. But some people like to take it a step further.
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Enter The Salad Bowl Theory:
Both the melting pot and the salad bowl are made up of unique ingredients. But, instead of melting its contents and blending them together, a salad maintains the individuality of each individual ingredient . The salad still tastes delicious in the end, but it does so by embracing each ingredient, not by changing them. Both analogies offer an example of the importance of immigrants and diversity to American culture. We just prefer the salad bowl analogy because it embraces our cultural differences instead of hiding them. |
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Both analogies offer an example of the importance of immigrants and diversity to American culture. We just prefer the salad bowl analogy because it embraces our cultural differences instead of hiding them.
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The Salad Bowl Project was created by Tiffany Wilt during her final year at Georgetown University. The educational resource is Tiffany's final capstone project for her master's degree in Latin American Studies at the School of Foreign Service. Throughout her studies Tiffany noticed a huge gap between the beliefs of academics and the beliefs of regular working class people. This project began as a way for Tiffany to attempt to bridge that gap.
After doing the research for herself, Tiffany realized how important reversing the anti-migrant narrative in the United States was. One of the easiest ways she saw to do this was to make sources on the reality of U.S. immigration accessible to everyone, regardless of their educational background. Her goal with the Salad Bowl Project is to promote a more diverse and accepting immigrant culture in the United States to start to heal the relationship between immigrant and native-born Americans.
After doing the research for herself, Tiffany realized how important reversing the anti-migrant narrative in the United States was. One of the easiest ways she saw to do this was to make sources on the reality of U.S. immigration accessible to everyone, regardless of their educational background. Her goal with the Salad Bowl Project is to promote a more diverse and accepting immigrant culture in the United States to start to heal the relationship between immigrant and native-born Americans.