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melting pot

NOUN
different cultures in a society
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From Slate • May 14, 2026

"It was such a melting pot of every single type of teenager ... It was absolute heaven."

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Their signature sound, much like the East L.A. neighborhood they grew up in, is a melting pot of influences, combining old-school cumbias, ’90s grunge, and psychedelic rock into something completely unique to them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Mr. Sayles notes that the U.S. is often quaintly likened to a melting pot; the reality of the country’s boiling admixture is much more dangerous and much more powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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