What is different between Canadas multiculturalism and Americas melting pot?
The difference between multiculturalism or the “tossed salad” and the melting pot is the perception that those who go to a society that is more of a “tossed salad” get to keep their languages and traditions, their culture whereas in a “melting pot” people loss their culture and language and become one, homogeneous society, having assimilated into the one dominant culture. In fact, those who have come to America and become part of the “melting pot” do both, as I suspect, they do in Canada. Immigrants, if they are to become successful members of society, assimilate into the one dominant culture through learning the language and ways of where they live. However, when they are at home or with people of the same sort of culture as from where they came, like in some neighborhoods, they speak their original language and continue the same traditions that they had when they were in their countries of origins. This way seen in most major cities at the turn of the 20th century when there were Iri
