Hi, I'm a Native American, and I'm fed up with the appropriation of my culture by those desperate to be trendy, hip, ironic etc. porcinestresssyndrome asked: The internet is the "melting pot of the world", hahaha.
I know. Ridiculous.
Also, in Canada, the term “melting pot” is kind of a dirty word. We much prefer to use “Cultural mosaic” because that implies more of a shared existence, and less of a blending through erasing/loss of roots. We can coexist and share without having to sacrifice our identities. There is no idealized normal in the mosaic model. I think that’s what most people mean when they say melting pot nowadays, but they don’t realize how antiquated the term has really become.
