Melting pot | ethnology | Britannica (original) (raw)

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nation-states

• In nation-state: Diversity management
  …polyethnic states have applied “melting pot” policies, aiming to assimilate ethnic minorities into the hegemonic national culture, which often represents the culture of a dominant group (typically the founding group). In contrast, exclusionary policies have targeted ethnic or religious groups seen as alien to the nation and unassimilable. Historically,…
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United States history

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  In American colonies
  The “melting pot” began to boil in the colonial period, so effectively that Gov. William Livingston, three-fourths Dutch and one-fourth Scottish, described himself as an Anglo-Saxon. As the other elements mingled with the English, they became increasingly like them; however, all tended to become different from…
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