College professor: ‘Melting pot’ is now racist

Remember back in grade school when your teacher celebrated the United States as a “melting pot” of different cultures? Well, it turns out your teacher was a racist.

That’s according to Professor Pamela Brekka, who keeps knocking points off her students’ work in her Art Appreciation class at the University of Florida if they use the words “melting pot” in the work.

Why? Because, she says, the term “signals a Euro-White Colonial standard, point blank, period.”

Via Campus Reform:

Brekka told Campus Reform that she doesn’t want students to use the phrase “melting pot” because it is not an accurate description of diversity in the United States, asserting that “the reason we put less emphasis on the way cultural groups are alike is because of the historical disadvantages minorities have had compared to the white majority.”

She believes diversity in America can more accurately be described with a salad metaphor.

“It’s the difference between a soup and a salad…in the salad, the flavors remain distinct,” she explained. “Your romaine lettuce retains its flavor, the tomatoes retain their flavor, and so on. They are all living happily in one bowl.”

Brekka admitted that in past courses she would deduct a partial point if a student used “melting pot” in an assignment, although she also said it was not a “strict policy.”

Shunning the idea of the U.S. as a “melting pot” in favor of saying it should more resemble a “salad bowl” is nothing new among people who want to place a higher emphasis on multi-culturalism in the United States.

But here’s where folks like Brekka get it so wrong when they disavow the idea of an American “melting pot.” One of the most “Euro-White Colonial standard, point blank, period” achievements of Western society was the idea that certain individual rights belong to all people. We have the 1215 Magna Carta to thank for that.

In order for that to work, however, one must accept that he belongs to the society which promotes the rights of the individual. In America, for example, that could mean being proud to be an American and willing to defend the freedom-promoting values written into the nation’s Constitution.

But for those who only want to be a chunk of salad sitting in a big American bowl, that’s not always possible.

Economist Walter Williams recently provided a nice little test for hardcore multiculturalists:

Ask a diversity/multiculturalism advocate: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in northern Sudan. In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves are punished by having their hand severed. In some African and Middle Eastern countries, homosexuality is a crime, in some cases punishable by death. Are all these cultural values morally equivalent to those of the West?

In other words, there are some flavors that members of a civilized society should not want to taste.

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