"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
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> > Neither of you have responded at all to the valid information many of
the
> > rest of us have put here to refute you - including those quotes from the
> > Founding Fathers who meant this country to be a true MELTING-POT - not
> > "Xtian". Neither of you have yet proven that you can solve those TIMSS
> > physics questions.
>> You know the melting pot is not an image of diversity. It takes every
input
> and transforms it into a homogenous mixture. Very much like the US.
>
Parse, the original idea behind the "melting pot" imagery may not have been
what you stated, but just about everyone has heard that term and associates
it with diversity, even if that's not it's true meaning.