Melting pot or Salad bowl ?

The vision of America as a “melting pot of nations” (cf. the Latin motto “e pluribus unum” – ("one from many" –or "One out of many"  suggesting that out of many peoples, races, religions and ancestries has emerged a single people and nation—illustrating the concept of the melting pot.) , in which the foreign immigrants give up their national identity, way of life, culture and language and form a new nation, has never become reality. In the 1960s, the growing self-confidence of the minorities, their fight against discrimination, and the influx of new ethnic groups who refused to be culturally absorbed by American society, has made America look for a new image for this concept. The concept of the “salad bowl” was suggested as more accurate, accepting America as diverse, multi-cultural and pluralistic.