[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever

reminds me of seafood gumbo...but I prefer clam chowder

to me, melting pot sounds like fusing things together, which may not be the best term to descibe our country. More like every single culture co-exist here, but not fuse and blend in. When you talk about fusing or blending, that simply implies that ones culture blends into another and lost its original form, which is not the case here. Every culture here preserves their own traditions, like Chinese people do the lion dance, irish people uses four leaf clovers as a symbol during st patrick's day.

The blending comes when "everyone" becomes Irish on St. Patrick's day or entire cities celebrate the Chinese New Year etc. I agree that they all coexist but they also mesh into each other and back out again.