What is "melting pots"

Usage examples of "melting pots".

All but one of the world's six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups.

They've set up melting pots everywhere, and you can imaginewith all these fine houses in flames, they're like natural foundries.

The air was damp and chilly, and he wished unhappily that he was back in his tent, laboring over the hot molds and melting pots.

There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.

Many Americans are individual melting pots, fascinating mixtures of diverse races and nationalities.

The armorer came forward, scratching his grizzle-bristled chin with his right hand, which at the moment was a black iron hook that he used to grasp the handles of melting pots.

The seventh waggon, a huge cart with racks, but without a cover, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a resounding pile of iron kettles, melting pots, furnaces, and chains, over which were scattered a number of men, who were bound and lying at full length, and who appeared to be sick.

These sectors of the villes were melting pots, where outlanders and slaggers lived.

But the seething melting pots of cheap labor and crime had long ago been rehabilitated and merged with the rest of the community.