The University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point has told its faculty that seemingly innocuous phrases such as “America is a melting pot” are actually racial microaggressions and should not be used.

God, Zangwill claimed, was using America as “a crucible” to melt the “fifty” barbarian tribes of Europe into a metal from which He can cast Americans. Today, the melting pot metaphor is ...

In 1908 Israel Zangwill wrote a play "The Melting Pot" and introduced the phrase into ... of its ethnic groups offers a perspective on America's development and future. To illustrate their ...