The Melting Pot

The book offers an historical analysis of the assimilation process that happened throughout history. It covers several aspects of this process, including how nations were born, what is the impact of language to a community and how the assimilation process was either spontaneous or politically imposed.

The book is a splendid introduction in the world of ethno-linguistic assimilation. While it may seem like a complex and scientific subject, the Melting Pot tries to answer a very simple and common question for all persons: Who am I? In a world where multi-culturalism or race discussions are common, we would all want to understand these subjects better. Each and everyone of us identifies itself as a character in the multi-cultural story. And how can one understand something that has happened throughout the entire course of human history unless it looks behind in time. And the book is precisely about that. It’s a walk-trough races mixing, nations mixing and languages mixing. It tries to cover all aspects of the problem and avoids to offer resolutions and to let the reader reach his own conclusion. The way it is written defines the precisely the character of the author: technical but with the power of expressing ideas in a story-like manner; providing personal opinion combined with opinions of others to let the reader see more points of view on the same matter; expressing general ideas but with relevant particular examples to support them.

A Romanian historian, specialized in the process of assimilation and mixing cultures. He dedicated his career to research on the impact of assimilation upon several nations and on what defines a nation and its character.