I wanted to say more about the Salad bowl theory that we discussed in Thursdays class. I viewed the melting pot theory as a bad one. Melting pot seems to me as blending everything together and losing one's individuality. They don't keep their culture and what is important to them.
I like the Salad bowl theory because each individual group maintains whats important and yet the "bowl" keeps us all as one. We can be free to move freely within it. It just seems to make more sense to me.
Also I still think it makes sense to me to not impose our ideals on to kids. I asked both my girls who are 15 and 10 if either of them had heard of either theory and they said no. I left it at that. I didn't want them hearing anything else about it until they had questions. Honestly they kinda looked at me wierd and asked if I was talking about the fondue place ;)
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