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Q 1. Why has the United States been called a melting pot? What are the largest minority groups in the country? 2. What parts of the United States have the highest representation of the four largest minority groups? 3. How did the US Hispanic population change in size and location from 2000 to 2010? Why is the Hispanic population growing faster than other ethnic groups in the United States? 4. What two states have about 50 percent of the Hispanic population?5. What have been the push-pull factors for Hispanic immigration to the United States? 6. What is remittance, and how are remittances significant for immigrants to the United States?

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Melting Pot is considered to be a metaphor which refers to the amalgamation of a number of cultures into one culture. In the America melting pot is mean to describe our immigration systems where we can see different cultural people have come to reside in our nation after its formation and each and cultures have mixed up to become one American culture. For this reason the United States is also known as melting pot.