英语词汇melting pot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

melting pot. In his play about immigration entitled The Melting Pot (1908) English author Israel Zangwill wrote: “America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!” Though Zangwill didn’t stew blacks and Asians in his pot, the phrase quickly came to include everybody in America, “a homogene- ous melting pot of heterogeneous individuals,” as someone said. The term, by the way, doesn’t refer to the loss of ethnic identity but to the breaking down of racial and national prejudices.

词汇	melting pot
词源	melting pot. In his play about immigration entitled The Melting Pot (1908) English author Israel Zangwill wrote: “America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!” Though Zangwill didn’t stew blacks and Asians in his pot, the phrase quickly came to include everybody in America, “a homogene- ous melting pot of heterogeneous individuals,” as someone said. The term, by the way, doesn’t refer to the loss of ethnic identity but to the breaking down of racial and national prejudices.
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