Zangwill (1908) wrote: “ God is creating the American!...the true American had not yet arrived. It will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the next superman… the glory of America, where all races and nations come to work and look forward.” This is an exercise from the play "The Melting Pot". Israel Zangwill was a Jew born in England, on January 21, 1864 in London, England. In addition to “The Melting Pot,” Zangwill used her pen to advocate for women's suffrage, Jewish emancipation, assimilation and Zionism. Zionism is the Jewish liberation movement (Wikipedia, 2012). In 1909, “The Melting Pot” was inaugurated in Washington DC. It was a success. President Theodore Roosevelt gave the show excellent reviews. The New York Metropolitan Playhouse directed the production in 2006. Zangwill married Edith Ayron, who was a feminist and an accomplished author in her own right. He died at the age of 62 in West Sussex, England (Rochelson, n.d.). Zangwill had an idea and a vision of what cultural assimilation would become. This idealistic American “melting pot” approach is a multi-faceted theory. There are many aspects of American assimilation. This involves leaving part of one's cultural identification to join a larger American culture in search of work and the means to support oneself. Many aspects of this vision have begun to manifest themselves in our culture in the last century. We will address some examples of cultural assimilation and what the Bible might say about this vision. There are also some weaknesses or differences that can be found in the “modern melting pot” concept. “Today the trend is towards multiculturalism, not towards assimilation. The old metaphor of the "melting pot" is giving way to new metaphors such as "salad bowl" and "mosaic", mixtures of various...... middle of paper ......metaphor: why coercion, HoHoNu, A Newspaper of Academic Writing, 4(1) Web. 22 November 2015. http://hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/hohonu/writing.php?id=91Parrillo, 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 to US in 2010, report says, no change from '09, The New York Times, Web. November 28, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/us/02immig.htmlRochelson, M., (n.d.) Israel Zandwill, Jewish Virtual Library, Web. November 30, 2015. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/zangwill.htmlThinkQuest (n.d.) The Chinese, immigration, the journey to America, Web. 18 November 2015.http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/ Chinese.htmlWikipedia (2012) Israel Zangwill, Web. 19 November 2015.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zangwill