Schoolhouse Rock - The Great American Melting Pot

[@josterin]

I'm proudly a brazilian immigrant. I love this country SO much. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇧🇷 I've been in other country and even with all our flaws I still think that there's no other country like the U.S.A

[@aguy7848]

People like you are exactly what this country's all about: a place where anybody from any walk of life anywhere in the world can come and find freedom and opportunity. God bless America, and god bless all Americans, no matter where they're from!

[@ConnorMiller417]

I’m watching this in 2024 and it brings a tear to my eye. So many Americans have lost sight of what America is supposed to be: a free world where everyone is welcome and we are free to live however we choose. No matter your race or religion or gender or political affiliation, we are all Americans and we are all human beings. America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. I’m proud to be an American! 🇺🇸

[@litneyloxan]

Absolutely. I recall back to this video every time people start talking so poorly about migrants. I can't imagine someone removing my entire family line if my great great grandfather had been deported instead of welcomed with open arms.

[@jeanpence7950]

Very well said. I spoke with a women in Target yesterday who fussed about people living in America speaking a different language. She said they shoudln't be here. Of course they should! This is America. It is one of the things that make us great. At least it used to be.

[@andreyaalderete7789]

This video brings tears to my eyes sometimes. So many Americans completely forgot what America existed for. So much racism and discrimination. We all forgot the real American dream...

[@paulmay6812]

Mama Moogle amen to that

[@averythomas7919]

Yes! What it was supposed to be!!! Sadly tho that dream did not include people like me in its inception.

[@erinc6997]

@@averythomas7919 not true... reason why the founders wrote the way "we are indowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights". What I'm perceiving by your statement that slavery still was in place... the founders, Thomas Jefferson knew at the time as the current culture, the excepted custom of the day, he and others did debate in the 1st continental Congress the issue multiple times, discussion was heated.. BUT the slavery issue was going to clearly divide the congress and that divide would have stopped the creation of the country that fought and freed the slaves.. and they had to decide at the time of needing the southern colonies in the overall fight against the British that slavery was going to have to be fought later because it wasnt going to help them fight the bigger battle against the tyranny of Britain and for America's indepence.. Jefferson called slavery a "hideous blot" and put into the Constitution giving the pathway to freedom so when it was later fought, it would be easy for all to become free... it was fought in the Civil war and the bloodiest war that our country has ever seen. 622,000+ lives were lost to pay for the sin of slavery. Every other conflict combined almost equals the lives lost to free the slaves. 1 war that lasted 4 years cost almost as many lives as over 200 years of conflict that the US had been involved in, including the revolutionary war, WW1 and WW2... just to put it I to perspective for you. Here is some more informatk Ion on the founders and slavery www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-constitution-and-slavery

[@kristinm.4916]

Honestly!!! It just hurts my heart to listen to this song now.

[@DejaunWright]

Sadly my dear, it’s always been this way, even from the beginning. It is inherently American to be racist, as the British solidified that when they took human beings as slaves. Ironically when the British wanted to end slavery in the Americas, that’s when the colonizers forced them out. Slavery was a major catalyst for the American Revolution, despite what history says.

[@jettthewolf887]

Americans need to hear this song today more than ever.

[@thedeerguy7579]

agree

[@Nicky2414]

Strongly Seconded.

[@celestemunda7143]

Thoroughly Thirded.

[@lizardkid666]

North Carolinian and this country is crazy

[@garycarpenter2980]

You said a mouthful friend

[@AmericanBoy-si9zg]

School House Rocks history songs are the best.

[@averythomas7919]

Definitely

[@ultrafox4005]

I will contest to that. America Rock songs, since they need to be compressed down to 3 minutes, glosses over a lot of important details. I’m Just a Bill and Great American Melting Pot are two that got it, the former because they actually nailed the process making a bill into a law correctly, and digestible for kids to understand, and the latter because it discussed the large immigration to America. Though in most cases they either overly simplify what happened or, in the case of Elbow Room, sugarcoats to a downright disrespectful degree.

[@brianjude6789]

@@ultrafox4005you do know that Number 19 of the all-time favorites is: "The Great American Melting Pot."

[@kjrey9878]

I loved this as a kid, and this is how America is SUPPOSED TO BE, but it hits a bit sour living in post 2020 America.

[@litneyloxan]

oh how true, I didn't think it could get much worse than Bush.

[@keiths.8110]

Love Lori Lieberman’s vocal on this. An awesome singer. This is one of my favorite songs in the series.

[@ohbogey]

Best upload of this classic message. The video & audio are decent! It's over 4 decades old. I hope we never forget it's message.

[@tucker12435]

I love this I don't understand why people are calling it inconsiderate. they aren't saying you have to hide your identities or hide your culture they're just saying you all have to come together and follow a general "rule of law". And function as one country it doesn't matter what your culture is if you act inappropriately you should get punished

[@jettthewolf887]

Its because people overlook things. Yes, immigrants were treated poorly and unfairly, but they still helped build this country to what it is to this day and despite the harsh treatment they never gave up on their dreams. To me, that is what America is about and that is something we should celebrate every 4th of July. Anyone who denies this is not a true American, people like Trump and the racists that run the GOP.

[@kdubbs4278]

@@jettthewolf887 Your comment was good until the last unfortunate line. It's bizarre when people buy into what one group tells them so vehemently that they abandon discernment and don't bother to really look into things. DT is not only not racist, he has always hired people of all color, for all positions in his business life, and then during presidency. Biden and this administration target position candidates BASED on their skin color. Racist much? Go back and review history to learn who the real racists are fella.

[@Sunnysuzanneo]

Sensitivities change quickly, but it probably would have been cool to at least mention American Indians being here first or something. But also this song is focusing on positives. Hard to spin that one…

[@lizardkid666]

@@jettthewolf887 I’m Welsh American

[@nope24601]

Play by the rules. Become American. That simple. Don't vote for what you fled.

[@JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB]

this song has such a wonderful singer

[@distilt1238]

"Lovely Lady Libertyyyyy, with her book of recipeeeeeees" and the repetition of "The Great American Melting Pot!" have been stuck in my head for a couple years, figured I would revisit some Schoolhouse stuff today. Feels real nostalgic..

[@Alexthegreat27]

The way the harmony sings 'Melting Pooooot' on the last part of the chorus always tickles my emotions and senses...1:11, 1:56 and 2:55...

[@averythomas7919]

My favorite is the last one how it fade out. That one has always gotten to me.

[@EdelgardvonHresvelg8663]

this a joke?

[@Alexthegreat27]

@@EdelgardvonHresvelg8663 why would it be? Thanks for bringing me back to the video. Great to watch again...

[@EdelgardvonHresvelg8663]

@@Alexthegreat27 okkkkkkkekekekekekekekekkek

[@lamontgreenlee6332]

They need to bring all these SHR programs back!!

[@willmaybe8121]

FYI: the lady singing this is the original singer- of “Killing Me Softly (With His Song)” - she is also the writer/composer of KMS(WHS)..... just thought I’d point that out. 😃

[@warez1896]

Lori Lieberman *hands down*

[@kathrynbarrows8476]

Great piece of information! Thank you!

[@mosespray4510]

Carole King?

[@Alexthegreat27]

Blossom Dearie, who sang 'Figure 8', and 'Unpack our adjectives' also did a version of 'Killing me softly'. It's an amazing rendition with a jazzy swing to it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJWrkK1ujsl9pbM

[@shaynanichelle8621]

We watched this in 8th grade and it’s so catchy! Love it!

[@sundollop]

I'm in 8th grade, I listened to this in class now I'm obsessed. XD

[@deparition]

it’s propaganda

[@hrose756]

Me too.

[@Rammstein45]

Out of nowhere! This random song that I haven't heard since I was in 2nd. grade (1996) just randomly popped into my head so I had to look it up (IN 2020)!

[@N.J.C95]

3rd grade for me ☺

[@mosespray4510]

1972 for me, in between Saturday morning cartoons.

[@Rammstein45]

@@mosespray4510 Feels like yesterday but it's been decades.

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

I grew up with a SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK DVD myself. Also, I was in 2nd Grade when I first saw Tony Stewart in action. It was April 9th, 2011.

[@BinglesP]

One of my favorite songs from this show. As someone who lives in Georgia but with a strong French and German lineage, this speaks to me. Not to mention, those vocals are genuinely and absolutely gorgeous!

[@tphillips37]

This is how we thought growing up in the 70's. Today it seems like we were living on another planet.

[@WyvernYT]

Some people can't handle living in America. The rest of us still love the country.

[@nope24601]

This is how I thought growing up in the 90s and 00's. It's what I carried into the 10s and 20s and saw DEI, Social Justice, and Equity destroy it one drop of poison at a time.

[@lenardmayfield5351]

I seen this when I was little and this is what America is

[@SummerBoy50534]

Probably the best song I’ve heard in schoolhouse rock so far!

[@P0Bear-hv7ll]

How about mother necessity?

[@docjoe86]

0:32 This enormous woman will devour us all!

[@chrishuston1992]

Go be a liberal Democrat somewhere else 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@emberZemian]

As an American myself, today's state of affairs are an absolute joke of what this country was supposed to be.

[@LittlePwnageMusicFan]

All Americans need to hear this song more often. NO MORE RACISM.

[@cs292]

This is Real America 🇺🇸

[@litneyloxan]

This is what I was raised on, America will always be a melting pot to me, no matter how much hatred and intolerance we have to endure from our fellow americans the next 4 (hopefully only 4) years.

[@brianjude6789]

*(NUMBER 19):* Number 19 of the all-time favorites is: "The Great American Melting Pot."

[@garyd2879]

My grandparents came here post, WW2 from Italy. They forbade Italian being spoken by their children. My Grandma on my Dad's side did teach me Italian before she psssed. I speak Italian, Spanish and English. The melting pot was to come here qnd qdd your culture, foods etc to the American. Wonder when that changed?

[@martinkelly5560]

I saw the words Irish stew and kind of made me hungry for some Irish stew now how ironic

[@mikethewhizz5085]

Easily the best piece of america rock

[@CaIIMeTree]

LOVELY LADY LIBERTY 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🔥🔥🗣🔥🔥

[@MarinersFalloutfan]

Gods our hopes for humanity were high then.

[@kiToro945]

The melting pot of friendship bois

[@realar]

I love this song!!

[@SummerBoy50534]

Same!

[@leppel22]

Too many forget and then act ignorant. Learn from these cartoons ! No matter what your age.

[@KevoRetro1-w7b]

They need to bring this back to Saturday mornings and use them as a commercial break.🤔

[@SinaiLanguageLovingIsraeli]

This is the best video!

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

My ancestors are of German and Swiss descent.

[@JaxonIrving]

My great great grandparents were French Canadian and German Jewish respectivly

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

My ancestors were partially German.

[@ernielightning3218]

When I make gravy, sometimes there’s clumps of flour that refuse to be stirred in and make a lumpy gravy. So I have to get out the hand mixer and whip the lumps into the gravy to make it it smooth.

[@TheRealPsychoDevil]

School House Rock out of context: The Great American Melting Pot: Americans, Swedish, Irish, British, Vietnamese, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish.... Cannibals: Ooh sounds yummy

[@DejaunWright]

“or so the legend told” is so much more accurate

[@moonbeast32]

Hey now. I acknowledge that the USA isn't perfect, but I know of many people who would tell you that it's lived up to that very reputation. You could as well, but not with that kind of attitude. Pessimism cannot fix problems.

[@DanKetchum007]

After this disastrous election, I keep watching this.

[@jikunei9]

Same… I dunno why the song came back to my head. But with how many people voted for Trump, it shattered my faith in the country. I had to try and remind myself of where that faith had originally come from. What America is supposed to be. A land where everyone can live together in peace and harmony, sharing their cultures while also respecting those of other people. Where did we start going so, so wrong, to be where we are today…?

[@rhiannonlove6887]

Same it's sad people forget the history of this country

[@yamiswife101]

Might be the part where he compared immigrants (legal or otherwise) in America to a trash can. My thought was how I thought it made us a melting pot not a compost heap

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

You mean Fair? Trump actually won this time.

[@a2ndchnltoitslf]

@@bardthenascarfanaticdragon Nothing says they don't see it as fair, they just say they see it as disastrous. Nothing says you don't have to like the results of a fair vote.

[@kristopherversteegt2939]

0:32, 1:47, and 2:31 - And the finest one she's got. It's the Great American Melting Pot! The Great American Melting Pot!

[@Jaceblue04]

48 years later, and the lesson of this song is just as important now as it was then.

[@liam-man7265]

1:18 I didn’t know that New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were part of the United States.

[@Kanuck1818]

That's Maine...🫥🫥🫥

[@MegaMelodytime]

Maybe Parachute Express should have done a rendition of this song for Schoolhouse Rock Rocks.

[@yardslammer009kennedy2]

I guess America conquered Newfoundland in this universe.

[@thenotsofunnypig6472]

This song is good but are the children that jumped into the pot okay?

[@crookedjack3380]

It makes me proud that my ancestors helped pave the way for the melting pot…my first ancestors came in 1620 to start a new life

[@nee-vdaisy8737]

There's Lori Lieberman!

[@GoogleAids]

Why is this not on spotify

[@MultiRobotnik]

Why isn’t the panhandle on Florida?

[@blugill]

I long for a non-hyphanated America!

[@chrishuston1992]

They sure don't teach this in schools anymore 🤦🤦🤦🤦🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@BlueeJ]

They played this video to us in elementary, I'm in ninth grade now. It's not over!

[@PatrickGlynn-e5g]

I watched this is history today and i feel like it kinda said that immigrants were supposed to forget their customs when they came here? Idk

[@Kawayoporu]

0:53 where is the Japanese in kimono??

[@TaTa_roblox366]

I love the up down part like build the USA who agree

[@66luckydude]

1:11 I see Peppermint Patty

[@brianbelknap2254]

Amen

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

0:37 A lot of us are all of these mixed together.

[@ContraryASMR]

Neoliberals when you suggest that a Poem on a Statue that wasn't even there originally shouldn't define immigration policy:

[@AlasdairGR]

And then they got here and had to work the shittiest jobs, live in the poorest communities, and face mountains of discrimination. Oh and also were encouraged to forget their old customs and traditions and completely assimilate into a “normal and proper American lifestyle”

[@bluetopguitar1104]

True, it's idealized but now I see so much backwards horrible behavior from people who embrace the worst leadership our country has ever had. Not even a try at making things better.

[@jettthewolf887]

@The serpent must die People like you will always be part of the problem, never the solution.

[@brianbelknap2254]

I remember

[@akirahimurakinakiyama99]

Maybe I should share this video

[@thomasterry1131]

On the show Blackish,the Roots did a true School house rock.

[@andyoutlaww7494]

0:03 0:09 1:18 1:24 2:08 2:14

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

A certain group of red hats probably hate this song...

[@Scottwilkie18]

Tissues

[@LukeLovesRose]

The Kalergi Plan is in full swing. This cartoon is a perfect programming tool

[@sominboy2757]

If you stay within your race for too long you eventually get inbreeding

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@sominboy2757 SHUT UP. That is a load of crap.

[@sominboy2757]

Honestly, any dark skin person can do just as good if not better at times a job as a white person.

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@sominboy2757 LMAO. Are you effing with me?

[@sominboy2757]

@@LukeLovesRose america was never meant to strictly be a land for white people. Its just white supremacists tricked everyone into believing it was

[@ayeram3]

Trump should watch this......

[@Mark73]

More importantly, his followers should watch it.

[@misse0077]

Oh I'm sure it would be too complicated for him to understand. The only thing he's good at is posting tweets.🙄 Such an embarrassment

[@playerslayer1787]

Røbbin Mølk Well you’re not wrong

[@playerslayer1787]

I wish everybody who shares opinions with him will watch this

[@jisslgo542]

Rather the people who hate America should watch it

[@TheDeviantLord]

That used to be America. Not anymore. Very sad.

[@mickwayne3398]

gives me a tear of nostalgia but I can't overlook how the melting pot theory here skips over the people who were already here before the English and had their land and resources stolen from them.. and weren't asked if they wanted anyone else to "melt" with them..

[@fart99farts]

oh, word? So you're going by the "I called dibs!" strategy of land-grabs, ok

[@eatd2059]

What about the African Americans, are we not part of the great American melting pot? We have been here longer than Germans, Italians, Irish Americans.

[@duckin7243]

he wasn't watch the video..it seems.

[@eatd2059]

@Isaac Miller I read what it said, my point was African Americans were not part of the song.

[@kawaiiology]

I noticed this too, they said German, Irish, English, Dutch and French.... but they missed African and of course, the Aboriginals. I know this cartoon is super old but I watched it as a kid (late 90’s - early 00’s) and I never understood why they didn’t mention them.

[@Playerblu11]

Dude Africans are in the ingredients book next to armenians

[@gaylebynumcardosa7034]

Someone put oil and water in the pot.

[@markrodriguez9442]

I hope this can send messages to the anti-immigrates.

[@wenthulk8439]

So sad that America has never lived up to its legend…..

[@roshawncrawford2524]

What is happening today is turning this song into a big lie

[@davinawetherington6627]

Although it was truth at one time, but unfortunately things change .

[@WyvernYT]

It's always been aspirational. People looking for excuses to hate others have always been with us. But we don't have to fall into division and hatred; America still has places for everyone.

[@Wesley-1776]

Come here legally and contribute to our society and I’ll welcome you with open arms as a brother or sister. Just leave your baggage at the door, we don’t need your problems. But we are always willing to hear a new solution to a problem we may not have thought of before.

[@lesslycarthan956]

The lies inside the children education comments cut off on inventions and no more king with the native Indians under Plymouth rock

[@ariana9941]

is this some sort of propaganda? or state runned media? curious since i have no idea whats this

[@a2ndchnltoitslf]

a song in the 70's about immigration

[@ariana9941]

@@a2ndchnltoitslf yeah i know, but if it was supported by the goverment or was made by private citizens

[@lrigdrenlrigdren2147]

It used to play on TV on Saturday mornings, which was traditionally when kids' cartoons came on. I don't remember which network - maybe ABC? Along with a lot of the '70s TV programming for kids, I do think it was aimed at casting immigration in a positive light, and helping kids not hate each other because of differences. The 1960's had seen a lot of hatred and violence and loss of hope; the goal was, I think, to press a restart button in some ways. Some of this particular film and song looks kind of insensitive today, but at the time, it was probably progressive. All I know is, I loved it as a kid and it did feed my desire to have friends from all over the world.

[@roshawncrawford2524]

Roberta flack

[@brianleslie1632]

John Oliver told me to check this out

[@cairothegreat1983]

Sounds like,the carpenter's

[@mebrn5337]

The pot LITERALLY drew no blacks in it!!! Lol

[@CarlChristensen64]

It seems so quaint and nostalgic after decades of conservative xenophobia and Trump

[@oyedeb4614]

Crap no... They threw out the melting pot and gave us the tossed salad instead. Trump didn't do that, liberal bullsh*t did.

[@maeianomarengo4316]

Considering that now the idea of "the great american melting pot" is considered to be "racist" by progs (much in the same vain as the idea of being colorblind) for being "culturally incensetive" and "imperialistic" this comment doesen't seem to have age that well.. 🤡

[@xmushroomx6662]

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣

[@mattsodano6264]

Actually, Afroeurasia is the Old World and the New World is both Americas.

[@horseyfacetheglorious]

This song is a contradiction, this song leaves out the 100 million people that have been here for millennia

[@Nick23003]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@ashcore95]

you could never make something like this these days, the anti woke mob would cancel it for being dei propaganda

[@theorca5173]

There should be a heavy dose of English language in that melting pot.

[@elbasado481]

El atrocidad

[@horseyfacetheglorious]

An American Tail is better than this song, it tells the horrors of immigration in the 1800s

[@perliva]

This is so utterly stupid.

[@tropicalkitty1119]

perliva, it is not, this a song about race mixing. They’re saying it doesn’t matter what country you’re from, you can live here.

[@perliva]

Tropical Kitty It does matter. Also: don’t race mix. It’s shameful and disgusting.

[@tropicalkitty1119]

perliva, doesn’t race mixing mean it doesn’t matter what race someone is, you don’t have to separate people because of their race?

[@perliva]

Tropical Kitty I guess it can mean different things.

[@tropicalkitty1119]

perliva, what do you think it means? I heard that phrase on Community, and I’m guessing it means what I think it means.

[@brianbelknap2254]

I remember

[@roshawncrawford2524]

Roberta flack