The humble dish of hummus represents, quite literally, the melting pot of Israeli culture.
Basque country is the reverse melting pot--let's all be together, work together, but let's not melt.
We are a melting pot, a mosaic of immigrants where competence is recognized and rewarded.
These ripples are part of Singapore's transformation from a micro-managed melting pot into a cosmopolitan city-state.
If she is living in a melting pot like New York, she is global on steroids.
"That's the melting pot of what New York is, " says percussionist Mauro Refosco.
If he fails in these early season conditions, it will all be back in the melting pot.
But the melting pot is still bubbling: adult immigrants work, and their children virtually all speak English.
"There's a real melting pot of languages and people draw on all kinds of different kits, " said Nia Parry.
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On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.
Yet before it disbanded in 1971, the quartet recorded one of the most effortless-sounding groove records of all time, Melting Pot.
From the Elizabethan English spoken in Chesapeake Bay to the Basque in Elko, Nevada, America's ethnic melting pot refuses categorically to dissolve.
Houston's "melting pot" makes it "impossible for any one group to dominate another, " says Fred Hofheinz, who was mayor in the 1970s.
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We need to get smarter about our immigration policies, for one thing, and invite more good pullers into our great melting pot.
Unfortunately, these players weren't able to build on the adventurous spirit of Melting Pot: The group disbanded shortly after the album's release.
His open-mindedness put him at ease in America's melting pot, and at odds with the rhetoric about values that pervades American politics.
Cao says he understands the "melting pot" nature of his adopted state.
Its simple, skeletal tunes align with the marathon musical adventures of the times: "Melting Pot" (audio), for example, lasts more than eight minutes.
The island is a melting pot of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other Asian cultures that are expressed deliciously in the foods sold at the open-air hawker centres.
But no matter what our ages or how Americanized we were or were not, everybody seemed to know that nothing good could come from stirring up the melting pot.
Gone are the aspirations to turn the ICA into a multi-cultural melting pot of ideas, which is down with the kids and up with the latest beats from the street.
In addition, the American culture that they package seems to have a universal appeal that may have something to do with America's melting pot or simply with Hollywood's commercial cunning.
There have been many groups represented over time, from enslaved and indigenous peoples, those of European stock, and now to a population reflecting the wider world -- truly a "melting pot, " he said.
"Singapore is a melting pot, which helps to create great cuisine, like in New York and London, " says Violet Oon, who runs a Singapore food consultancy and is the author of two cookbooks.
At its core, the program believes in creating a melting pot of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives while also maintaining a context of openness that doesn't shy away from experimentation and failure.
By giving a speech from a large Southeast Asian Muslim nation that is also a racial and religious melting pot for diversity within greater Asia, he can speak to the post-racial Obama generation around the world.
It is said that it got going at the end of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires' brothels, where a melting pot of poor immigrants and country folk danced together while waiting their turn to slip behind the bedroom door.
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