Meaghan Rowland Post #5

Regarding the salad bowl/melting pot idea...it seems like there is a no win situation of what to tell the children regarding race and ethnicity in the world. The melting pot analogy seems to promote assimilation and the fact that once in the US all should act/speak/look the same way. Although the salad bowl idea does promote a more accepting view of ethnicity and race, it is sadly not accurate for the majority of ethnic and racial views in the US. Also in class a good point was made, in the salad bowl there is always something that everyone does not like. What is to say that the ethnicities and races that are represented by that part of the salad will not still be left out and discriminated against. Overall, it is difficult to come up with an accurate and age appropriate analogy to give the children regarding ethnicity and race. Is the real truth without analogy too much for them to handle? Also something has to be said who is it that is going to decide what is going to be relayed to the school age children.