"The salad bowl concept suggests that the integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad. In the salad bowl model, various American cultures are juxtaposed — like salad ingredients — but do not merge together into a single homogeneous culture. Each culture keeps its own distinct qualities." -source of wikipedia.org

The Melting pot is the concept that a country's people,races,and cultures to make one whole. In this concept people, in a way, will give up their identity and start a new life. They will be identified as Americans only and they will loose their previous identity. They have to adopt all American customs and life styles.

• jaxtaposed- to place together or side by side.
• homogeneous- composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind.