Israel Zangwill Authored "The Melting Pot". On one hand, in her text she metaphorically rereferred to America and its culture as the Melting Pot of an Alchemist, one that is glorious in it's diversity.
<h3>What is the textual evidence that supports the above?</h3>
The except that stands as textual evidence to this is:
"There she lies, the great Melting Pot – listen! Can’t you hear the roaring and the bubbling? There gapes her mouth – the harbor where a thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of the world to pour in their human freight. Ah, what a stirring and a seething! Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian, - black and yellow . . . Yes, East and West, and North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross – how the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite . . . what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem . . . compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward!"
Notice that she compares the glory of Rome and Jerusalem to America, inferring that America outshines them all.
Moynihan on the other hand holds a slightly pessimistic view of the above imagery.
She insinuates that America has a way of "de-hauling" it's immigrants of their values and original attributes. She states that It is true that American immigrants are transformed but not in the sense that Zangwill suggests. According to Moynihan, they don't all become the same thing after going through the "Alchemist's' Melting Pot"
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