Cultural Implications When Israel Zangwill coined the metaphor of immigration being akin to a melting pot, it became the standard by which most cultural historians have adhered to, to the point of having a three generation model where the first generation immigrants come to a host nation like Britain or America and struggle to learn the language, pass through immigration standards and find employment. The second generation struggles to become fully assimilated into the dominant culture while the third generation is fully assimilated to the point of not understanding what their grandparents are talking about when they speak their native language. This ideology has come under sharp criticism, beginning in the 1960s when identity politics became
