a melting pot

"This country is not about to become a melting pot, it is already by far the biggest ethnic melting pot in Europe" - Writer Frederick Forsyth on the number of immigrants, legal and otherwise, in Britain.

Headliners are Derry's Swanee River, a "melting pot of a melting pot of rock, soul and blues topped off with the ferocious voice of Steve Horner".

Finally, J T White described England as a melting pot. All nations are melting pots: Scotland, Wales and Ireland are every bit as impure as the English and yet no one questions their nationhood or identity.

But "Mexican immigration is a unique, disturbing and looming challenge to our cultural integrity, our national identity and potentially to our future as a country." It represents in fact a pattern of what may happen in many countries: an immigrant group becomes so large that it does not disappear into a melting pot but claims special privileges for itself and threatens the culture of its host country.

We are not quite a melting pot, but neither are we--to continue the culinary metaphor, as Huntington labels the melting pot (though it originally referred to the smelting of metals)--a salad of distinct components, each maintaining its difference, as multiculturalists would have it.

Many more people passed through the conference's Global Village described by the alliance as "a melting pot where everyone from sex workers to saffron-robed monks, massage therapists to meditation leaders, and artists to AIDS activists" shared ideas and experiences.

The Bowery, the neighborhood formerly known as a melting pot of homeless street dwellers and low-end retail establishments is getting a major facelift.

I confess that dematerializing, as long as it is done in a melting pot, still seems preferable to demonizing, but then I live in Kansas.

The book points out that Harlem isn't just a melting pot where different ethnicities collide--African Americans, Africans, Latinos and Afro-Caribbeans--but also where the various strata of class dash: the middle class, working class and the underserved.

Crevecoeur's image of the United States as a melting pot had little basis in fact.

With a range of music from Vivaldi and Couperin to the hip-hop rhythms of DJ Tal, Paradis is everything its name suggests, a place where video images of pink flamingos, zebras, wandering children, jovial grandmothers, and giants collide with a melting pot of dancers in a dreamlike state of euphoria.

Sugar ice and fiery spice, there's a melting pot of colour to savour - and who knows you might get your just desserts!

NEW YORK A Melting Pot Theater Company presentation of a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Mel Marvin, book and lyrics by David Chambers.

Presumably every piece of metal taken from a melting pot should have the same chemical composition.

The new results suggest, however, that the collision is creating a melting pot where the lines between India and Asia blur.