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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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49 |
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AUTHOR:
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Carl N. Degler (1921–) |
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QUOTATION:
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The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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CARL N. DEGLER, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, rev. ed., chapter 10, section 4, p. 296 (1970). |
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SUBJECTS:
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America |
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