Melting Pot. Immigrants.

“America is God’s crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming. Here you stand, good folk, think, I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won’t be long like that brothers.” The melting pot is the ideal of the nativists in America at the …

…with the ideas of the melting pot as the ideal method of assimilation of immigrants. An argument is made that without the diverse cultures that make up the north east, there would be a stagnant American spirit eerily reminiscent of Victorian Britain the epitomizes the South. 12A better ideal that represents the assimilation of the west, east, north and southern foreigners and cultures into America is pluralism, a much more tolerant and true American ideal.