How does Schlesinger see America? I had really never thought about it: "What is America? Until this week I believed that America was a country (and a continent), but after reading Schlesinger's piece I realized that it is not only that. Schlesinger believes that America has succeeded ...

The American melting pot Melting Pot describes a model of ethnic relations in which a nation-state's constituent ethnic groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. This can take either of two forms: 1) all ethnic groups acculturate to a universalistic s...