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In the Same Melting Pot? America and Europe
In the Same Melting Pot? America and Europe

Author(s): Iulian Isbăşoiu, Nicoleta Stanca
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion, Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Religion
Published by: EDIS- Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina
Keywords: melting pot; Americanization; Europe; multiculturalism; interculturalism; unity; diversity; integration; pillarization;

Summary/Abstract: Revolving around the key concept of the melting pot, the article discusses cultural models adopted in the American and European societies (i.e. Americanization, multiculturalism, interculturalism, the cultural mosaic, muscular liberalism, and pillarization) in the attempt to explain, historically up to the present day, the circumstances of the encounters of immigrants’ cultures with the ones of the host countries.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 126-135
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English