Our country -- the Salad Bowl.

I found both of the articles to be easy yet informative reads. Our country really is one big salad bowl, as the Diaz-Rico & Weed article describes. The article was filled with a lot of facts and numbers about the different populations here in America. I don't really know what to make of it, except to say, "I really had no idea we were that diverse." I knew that America has always been viewed as a melting pot, but really? Are we? Yeah, one could argue that we have meshed together, but after reading that history and Caucasians have dominated other cultures, especially minorities, I don't think much "melting" is going on there.

The most interesting portion of the Who Speaks English? article was the chart that displayed all of the different Englishes spoken around the world. It makes me, as an American, feel as though I have been living in my bubble for my whole life. I had NO idea there were that many varieties. I assumed there was American English, Australian English, and British English. No, not assumed, thought. I thought there were only those 3. So, with that assumption, does that mean that these 3 countries see themselves as better than other ENL countries that are not as well known? Does that make the English speaking population of the UK, Australian, and Britain better than ESL speakers that are perfectly competent? It makes you think..