The term mosaic gained form in the work of John Murray Gibbons by the name of Canadian Mosaic (1938) whereas the term melting pot emerged as a result of Israel Zangwills’ play The Melting Pot (1908). Both the terms have achieved historic importance as they carry a belief and describe a national ideology. Therefore for the situations in Canada it is called the ‘cultural mosaic’ and for America it is said to be the ‘melting pot’ both are considered as the elements of multiculturalism. Mosaic is a mix of various cultural, religious and ethnic groups that exist in a society where everyone can keep their cultural identity in the foreign society and they completely become a part of this society.
There is a difference in the situation in the USA for they consider their society to be a ‘melting pot’ i.e. all heterogeneous things become homogenous. The culture of minorities “melts down” to the American culture and society and it becomes a symbol for immigrants’ assimilation to the American culture. It is very thus very much evident that both the nations have different attitude towards the immigrants. Where Canada does not want to do away with the immigrants’ cultural identity, American on the contrary expects of the immigrant to become a part of their