{"id":11510,"date":"2011-01-15T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2011-01-15T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T22:48:38","slug":"the-melting-pot-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11510","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Melting Pot&#8221; A Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jhered.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/8\/3\/99.2.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Melting Pot&#8221; A Myth<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jhered.oxfordjournals.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of Heridity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jhered.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/8\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 8, Number 3<\/a> (March 1917)<br \/>\npages 99-105<\/p>\n<p><em>Study of Members of Oldest American Families Shows that the Type is Still Very Diverse\u2014No Amalgamation Going on to Produce a Strictly American Sub-Type\u2014Characteristics of the Old American Stock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>America as &#8220;The Melting Pot&#8221; of peoples is a picture often drawn by writers who do not trouble themselves as to the precision of their figures of speech.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ale%C5%A1_Hrdli%C4%8Dka\" target=\"_blank\">Ales Hrdlicka<\/a> has been investigating the older contents of this pot, and finds that even the material which went into it first has not yet so melted.\u00a0Several hundred members of the old, white, American stock have been most carefully measured and examined in many ways, to find whether the people making up this stock are tending to\u00a0become alike\u2014whether a new sub-type of the human race is being formed here in America, with intermarriage, environment, and under the pressure of outward circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hrdlicka finds very definitely that as yet such is not the case. The force of heredity is too strong to be radically altered in a century&#8221; or two, and even the descendants of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilgrim_Fathers\" target=\"_blank\">Pilgrim Fathers<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia_Cavaliers_(historical)\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia cavaliers<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_Dutch\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Dutch<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huguenot\" target=\"_blank\">Huguenots<\/a>, while possibly not as much unlike as their ancestors probably were, are still far from a real blend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Melting Pot&#8221; is a figure of speech; and, as far as physical anthropology is concerned, it will not be anything more in this country, at least for many centuries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jhered.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/8\/3\/99.2.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Melting Pot&#8221; A Myth The Journal of Heridity Volume 8, Number 3 (March 1917) pages 99-105 Study of Members of Oldest American Families Shows that the Type is Still Very Diverse\u2014No Amalgamation Going on to Produce a Strictly American Sub-Type\u2014Characteristics of the Old American Stock America as &#8220;The Melting Pot&#8221; of peoples is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2039,8,20],"tags":[5198,5197],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ales-hrdlicka","tag-the-journal-of-heridity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}