Friday, August 21, 2009

Melting Pot and Salad Bowl.




Yesterday I was watching Charlie Rose interviewing Ramachandra Guha and Guha was explaining the main difference between the heterogeneity found in India and in the US. He was saying US is like a melting pot where several cultures mix and try to find a unique identity among themselves whereas India is like a salad bowl where all the cultures co-exist without losing any of their identity. Thought this was a cool analogy.

2 comments:

tat_tvam_asi said...

I saw this originally in one of Sashi Tharoor's books. While US is a melting pot, India a is like Thaali

Unknown said...

Cool! I gotto follow your blog more often I guess, since you have been posting cool stuff lately!