In our society today America consists of a lot of different people. All of these people are of different cultures, race, and religions. Even though they have many differences they all live and work together. Bringing together these people from diverse nationalities and making them conform to an idea or a group of ideas and still remaining an individual is my understanding of what a melting pot is. This takes place all over the United States. Based on my high school and different family observations I feel that America is a melting pot.
             I feel that my hometown, which is Powder Springs Georgia, is a good example of what I consider the melting pot to be. I attended a very culturally diverse high school. Many different people of many different cultures and beliefs attended this school. There were whites at the school that separated themselves because they did not like blacks. They even had there own bench and tree. In another section of the school the Trench Coat Mafia would gather together. Hispanics also had a place to communicate amongst themselves. That then left the black and the whites. Most blacks and whites hung out together, but we had different parts of the campus where we would stay. We all were from different nationalities and had different beliefs but we all attended the same school. Even though we all were separated at school, the event that brought everybody together took place on Friday nights. Everybody from the school would come out together and watch these football games. No matter how everybody separated at school, everybody came together to cheer for their high school. Having all these beliefs and being the individuals that the people were, everybody still worked together. My football team consisted of players from all these different groups. While at school people had all of these different beliefs, but when it was time to practice or play a game, everybody set their differences aside. It did not matter what each in...