Cultural Identity

From this class, I read some new articles. I know American’s culture is diversity. From those articles, the most interesting thing is two words. One is salad bowl, other is melting pot. At first, I can’t know what different between them, but I know it through this class. Salad bowl means different culture mix but they keep independent. Melting pot means they mix and become one culture. I never heard the two words before. When I read “I Want to Be Miss America”, I would ask myself that if I was a child, I will have the same idea as author or not. I think my answer is yes, because the situation is I was a child. Now I am an adult, so I don’t have this idea. Maybe my clothing style different with other people, I think is my charm. We should respect any culture and any different things.