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What is the melting pot that Fadiman discusses? How do the Hmong fit into this concept? How do other immigrant groups Fadiman discusses fit into the concept?
E plurbus unum: from many, one.
The melting pot concept expects that immigrants submerge their cultural differences in order to embrace a shared national identity. All the different immigrant groups are swirled into a big 'pot' along with their American counterparts and the mixture forms a new national identity. European immigrants who came over in the early 1900s did so with the hope of assimilating into mainstream American society. The Hmong, on the other hand, came to the U.S. specifically to resist...
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