The United States: a Melting Pot or a Salad Bowl

President Donald J. Trump is the 45th and the current president of the United States and the first president to take to social media so firmly and loosely in his words. Just recently, Trump tweeted that four non-white Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to the "crime-infested places" where they came from, even though three of the four were born in the U.S. and the other is a naturalized citizen.

Most critics attacked and begin to fume from the words and hate that Trump assumedly spewed, but some Americans sat in silence. We have one part of America speaking out in protest after he claimed that Haitian, African, and Salvadorian immigrant descendants should go back to their third world countries, and the other part nodding in agreement.

These two Americas have long co-existed for decades, one representing what America claims to stand for, the acceptance of immigrants to increase America's strength and give them hope and also the emphasizing of America as a melting pot, and the other is the one that destroyed Native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and put Japanese Americans in concentration camps to punish them for not all being born in this country.

The dangers of a world leader actively spewing racist comments and hate for the entire country and world to see can actively ensue violence. We've come to a point in our society and time today that irrepressible conflict is ensuing and is leading to not only the United States leaning away from being a "melting pot," but also leaning more towards being a "salad bowl," because every race, religion, and ethnicity is mixed in one country, but there are still people fighting against inclusion. They are choosing to not lose their shape, form, or identity.