Friday, September 14, 2012
Metaphors
If we ask anyone about what is American society? The first thing that come in a persons mind is multicultural society. I agree with it because most of the people in America are immigrants and they come here for a better future. I personally think Jesse Jackson's metaphor of united state as a family quilt is a great metaphor to express the diversity of cultures in the society. It is like a quilt because quilt considers if many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes and all of them are together with a common thread. In that same manner all of the cultures and communities count to make America a great country.The metaphor I would propose for american society is that it is like a "salad bowl". Like salad bowl has lettuce, cheese, croutons, onion, tomatoes and many more sauces and we love to eat it, in the same manner American society is mixed with multicultural people. All are from different race and cultural with different beliefs and just like we love salad bowl because it has so many ingredients, people from other countries love America because we are such a diverse country. Most of us are here because we love freedom and Unites States is best country to enjoy freedom. Therefore, all citizens should get along because we all are Americans. All of us are here because want to enjoy freedom, not to be sad or get punished for having different cultural belief.
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I agree that we live in a multicultural society and the majority of Americans are immigrants which make up the bulk of our population. I liked your justification of what you thought of Rev. Jackson's metaphor, but what I most appreciated was how it was completely different from my own opinion, and how different it was. It actually made me want to tweak my own blog post to write about how a rainbow was reasonable, but that a quilt had more of a validation; and there was more to say about individual quilt squares and how they can be much more unique overall versus a rainbow. I enjoyed your description of what other metaphor could be used and agree on the salad bowl proposal. I think any metaphor that combines different parts while mixing everything together as one could be considered a valid representation.
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