Today in class students briefly role-played various parts (Yugoslavic, Hispanic, Ecuadorian etc..) in order to create somewhat of a visual of what Anna Quindlen's neighboorhood looked like in "The Melting Pot." We talked about prejudice and tried to think of O'Maley as a "melting pot" and the different groups which make it up. After discussing our differences here at O'Maley and in America, classes seemed to agree with Quindlen that, "The American fable of the melting pot was a myth." We aren't all the same. We don't all blend into "one." However, we all still seemed to be torn over what is more important... our similarities or our differences? What do you think?
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