Citing information from your readings, what does Zangwill mean by the following: "Thus every country has been and is a "Melting Pot." But America, exhibiting the normal fusing process magnified many t

Citing information from your readings, what does Zangwill mean by the following: "Thus every country has been and is a "Melting Pot." But America, exhibiting the normal fusing process magnified many thousand diameters and diversified beyond all historic experience, and fed not by successive waves of immigration but by a hodge-podge of simultaneous hordes, is, in Bacon's phrase, an "ostensive instance" of a universal phenomenon. America is the "Melting Pot."?

Also explain if you agree or disagree and describe any other thoughts you may have about this reading (play) and/or the concept of the melting pot, especially after viewing the short video clip.

Here are the required reading and material links for this assignment.  

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23893?msg=welcome_stranger

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=race+the+power+of+an+illusion+the+melting+pot&&view=detail&mid=30180DA390202087960C30180DA390202087960C&FORM=VRDGAR