HOW BEYOND THE MELTING POT AFFECTED ME. I read BEYOND THE MELTING POT shortly before moving to New York City in 1968. I was skeptical about it because I had incorporated the Melting Pot metaphor in my thinking. Yet one passage in the book affected me. The book argued that Italians in America had demonstrated a talent for living in and preserving urban areas. I had a friend who lived in the North End of Boston and was enthusiastic about it. One of the things I was looking for in an apartment was a location in an Italian neighborhood. I found one on Downing Street in the West Village.
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