shout-out to the mad lad in the 90s who decided that describing america as a "melting pot" was insufficiently inclusive and that a better metaphor would have america as a "tossed salad"
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are they still doing this or did someone get wise to it
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"america is now considered" monstrous abuse of the passive voicepic.twitter.com/fwmuc9sdq7
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gosh can you imagine writing a paper on this instead of a dismissive twitter thread no citations here from before 2004 but I distinctly remember this getting pushed in the mid 90spic.twitter.com/IPA2E8XA8i
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i must know where this came from its development and promulgation feels like a microcosm of something large and dumb
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I remember Canadians used this a lot to describe the differences between American and Canadian society. Looks like this 1964 article was one of the earliest referenceshttps://books.google.com/books?id=2zMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA40&ots=DZ9Rhoc6B2&dq=Arnold%20Edinborough%2C%20%22Who%20is%20a%20Canadian%3F%22%2C&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q=Tossed&f=true …
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really though that is extremely interesting and sort of illustrates the perils of something
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The melting pot metaphor was probably never as real as we wanted it to be... but if the New Brunswick logger and Nova Scotian apple grower can’t find common ground, what hope have we here?!
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we once sang of how the farmer and the cowman should be friends :(
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