Rong: The problem of the melting pot is that it asks people to give up. We have no points of overlap at all, i do think that at a time when that form of articulturalism was very fashionable there were some real mistakes in policies adopted. Rong: It's one of t reasons why i love london and why i love new york is that e you continue to see the influence of those different cultures. But everything isn't the same, and every person not the same.