is america an salad bowl.
... except the one they could learn by moving into a new country. Though many find it hard to not except the new traditions they still live there life by there own traditions. Is The United States a melting pot or a salad bowl and how have many groups proved that they can still remain intact to there traditions and culture. In the story “ Between Two Worlds” Amira Masari who is sixteen years old had never slept over her friends house. “When she was in the sixth grade, her father wouldn’t let her go to a overnight school trip because he believes a girl shouldn’t spend a night outside her parents’s house before marriage”. Amira comes from a devout Muslim immigrant family (Smith114 ). She was born in egypt, she has lived in New York City since she was six. And like many young immigrants, Amira finds herself “being pulled between two worlds”- the traditional one of her parents and the new one of her adopted country. Sahar Ahmed who is fifthteen years old and a shy ninth grader from brooklyn, New york “who dreams of going to colledge and becoming doctor”. Sahar came to the United States from egypt with her family six years ago. She is the oldest of three girls she hardly allowed to do anything execpt go to school. Islam forbids drinkin...