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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. this ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "america." this concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically america encourages a politics of contestation.
-Edward Said
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Since The 1960s, We Have Seen The

Edward Said
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. this ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "america." this concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically america encourages a politics of contestation.
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