Both melting pot and rainbow are great metaphors for describing our American society in the past. However, time has changed where our society has become more diversity, people and their cultures are no longer unifying into the same pot. Therefore, I prefer one of Reverend Jesse Jackson’s metaphors, which is our United Stated is unifying as a rainbow. Each color represents different ethnicity and culture, and all the colors combine as rainbow, which is why we call our country as the United States. As we look at the rainbow, we can see all the colorful strips that made up the shinny little bridge. Just like people who are coming into America, they can easily tell our country is united by many different kinds of people, culture, and ethnicity. Although our country has many differences for everything, we are still a happy and united family, just like the colorful rainbow has given us the feelings of happiness and hope.
You make some great points on this post. I agree with you about liking the metaphor saying that the United States is a unifying rainbow. Also you pointing out that is the reason why we call our country "United States" was a great remark. We are def a country filled with diversity and other countries observe this and notice how all cultures come together freely in our country. We have come a long way to becoming united though. Now, we learn more about the cultures that are in America and learn how to respect each other through each other’s customs and ways. No matter our differences we still Unite together through entertainment, sports, tragedies (just to name a few examples). No matter our differences we do unite!
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