We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of us are oily and there's a little vinegar injected when you get up to Ottawa.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.

You can’t be the "melting pot" if one or some ingredients refuse to intertwine with the rest. You’re more like the sorted piles on a chopping board.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.