Between the Rainbow Nation and the Melting Pot: Troubling Reconciliation with The Fall

The paper deals with the indices of creative cities. Author analyses the different creativity indices suggested by both the followers and the critics of R. Florida. The author criticizes the Florida’s indices such as Bohemian, Melting pot, Gay, High tech, Innovation, Talent indices, as well as Minor integrative (diversity) and Major integrative indices. The indices of other authors presuppose the questions about the role of the region in defining certain creativity indices. The author makes conclusion that the uniform formula of creativity indices is impossible for two reasons. First, the creativity indices depend on the region of a city. Second, the very strategy to have the uniform creativity indices makes the cities similar to each other and no more unique, consequently, no more creative; as result, this strategy is anti-creative.

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Melting Pot or Cultural Pluralism ? Changing views on American ethnicity

Revue européenne de migrations internationales ◽

10.3406/remi.1990.1224 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 11-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas J. Archdeacon

Keyword(s):

Cultural Pluralism ◽

Melting Pot ◽

American Ethnicity

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Jewish Cooking in the American Melting-Pot

Revue Française d Etudes Américaines ◽

10.3406/rfea.1986.1223 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 87-98

Author(s):

Judith Friedlander

Keyword(s):

Melting Pot

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How Hot is the Melting Pot? Foreign-Born Participation in U.S. Elections

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1218943 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Courtney LaFountain ◽

Noel D. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Foreign Born ◽

Melting Pot

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Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. x + 221 pp.

10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0023 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Material Culture ◽

Cultural Landscape ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Nation State ◽

Main Argument ◽

Multicultural Society ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Ethiopian Jews ◽

State Of Israel

This chapter reviews the book Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel (2016), by Judy Jaffe-Schagen. In Having and Belonging, Jaffe-Schagen explores the connection between identity, material culture, and location. Focusing on eight cases involving Chabad, religious Zionists, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Russian Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs, the book shows how various minority groups in Israel are represented through objects and material culture in homes and museums. According to Jaffe-Schagen, in the politicized cultural landscape of borderless Israel, location not only affects the interplay between objects and people but can also provide important insights about citizenship. Her main argument is that the nation-state of Israel is not a multicultural society because it has failed to serve as a cultural “melting pot” for the various immigration groups.

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