Myth of the melting pot is inherently flawed. Amalgamated in theory, the cultural and ethnic fabric of the United States was developed not by the theoretical claim of mass immigration. Unfortunately, the development of the melting pot is a euphemism to distort the truth and ostensibly shield the fact of slavery, kidnapping, and rape to which the development of the nation rings true. Therefore, is the melting pot a cover to distort the true nature of a new social working class that is destined to be an enslaved working class to the aristocracy?
Israel Zangwill's mockery of the Melting Pot was a function of the 1908 drama to which he parodies the melting pot myth using characterization and symbolism to define just how the misconception of the melting pot is a ridiculous mistruth that is designed to ostensibly bring in the most qualified workers to the country for labor exploitation. The melting pot, therefore, would be to support the development of this new labor pool and prevent dissention from racism.
The notion of the melting pot was contrived from the horrible atrocities of the Nazi Germany 'final solution'. Depiction of the droves of Caucasian Jews and other 'undesirables' became a fixation to political leaders to which the new paradigm would shift to multi-colored and multi-racial unification and an opportunity for economic prosperity albeit within a highly competitive and very marginalized economy.
The aforementioned paradigm shift is the development of social movements via political, civil rights, and human rights organizations and activists that forcefully implored their collective will on changing the fabric of the cultural demographic. Indeed, there has been a proliferation of hate groups in America. Are the most recent financial and political developments to include the housing meltdown, a modern-day global 'Great Depression', and the marginalization of non-wealthy Caucasian-Americans the causal variables that led to these developments?
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The fear of difference is perhaps the underlying or lurking variable with regard to the proliferation of hate groups in the U.S....
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