Life Is Like A Bowl of M&M's

While writing my essay on the Salad Bowl yesterday, I took considerable time deciding if there was anything better than the Salad Bowl to personify American Society. While I still believe the Salad Bowl is the best thing we have to offer, A Bowl of M&M's is a quality substitution to this. A Bowl of M&M's is full of color, as is America. The beauty of this analogy is the fact that even though there are these stark differences in color, which are easily identifiable and is what we use to define these M&M's, on the inside, exists the same chocolate center. This promotes the idea that even though on the outside we may seem different, on the inside, we are all the same, human.

My only problem with this theory, which I detailed in my essay, is that it over-simplifies our society. One of the key points of American culture is that it is an amalgamation of several different cultures, and the salad bowl reinforces these differences. Every different ingrediant brings a certain flavor to the concoction. The M&M theory doesn't account for these differences, this is why it falls short.