Immigration: Is America Really a Melting Pot? Essay -- mulitculturalis

Zangwill (1908) wrote, God is making the American...the real American had non yet arrived. He will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming supermanthe glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward. This is an practise from the play The Melting Pot. Israel Zangwill was Judaic born in England, January 21, 1864 in London, England. Besides the The Melting Pot, Zangwill used his pen to defend womens suffrage, Jewish emancipation, assimilation and Zionism. Zionism is the Jewish liberation movement (Wikipedia, 2012). In 1909, The Melting Pot was opened in Washington D.C. It was a hit. President Theodore Roosevelt gave the play high reviews. The New York Metropolitan wendy house ran the production in 2006. Zangwill married Edith Ayron, who was a feminist and an accomplished author in her own right. He passed away at age 62 in West Sussex, England (Rochelson, n.d.).Zangwill had an idea and vision of what cultural assimilation would become. This ideal istic approach of Americas melting pot is a multifaceted theory on its own. There ar many aspects to the American assimilation. This involves leaving part of ones cultural identification to join a larger American culture in search of work and a means to sustain. Many aspects of this vision have begun to unfold in our culture over the past century. Some of the cultural assimilation examples will be addresses as well as what the Bible might say regarding this vision. There are also some weaknesses or differences that can be found in the new-made melting pot concept.Today the trend is toward multiculturalism, not assimilation. The old melting pot metaphor is giving way to new metaphors such as salad arena and mosaic, mixtures of vari... ...metaphor why coerc, HoHoNu, A Journal of Academic Writing, 4(1) Web. 22 Nov. 2015. http//hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/hohonu/writing.php?id=91 Parrillo, V., (2009) Strangers to these shores race and ethnic relations in the United States, (9th ed. ), Boston, MA, Allyn & BaconPreston, J. (2011) 11.2 million immigrants in the U.S. in 2010, report says, no change from 09, The New York Times, Web. 28 Nov. 2015. http//www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/us/02immig.html Rochelson, M., (n.d.) Israel Zandwill, Jewish virtual library, Web. 30 Nov. 2015. http//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/zangwill.html ThinkQuest (n.d.) The Chinese, Immigration, the Journey to America, Web. 18 Nov. 2015. http//library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.htmlWikipedia (2012) Israel Zangwill, Web. 19 Nov. 2015. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zangwill