A History of Immigration
Bernard A. Weisberg refers in his article's title to the United States as a "Nation of Immigrants" rather than a unique, ancient grounded nation. As Joe R. Feagin states in his "Racial and Ethnic Relations" textbook: "Immigration in the United States is its foundation, its uniqueness and its great strength". Weisberg particularly emphasizes this idea because some American people, especially of white-dominant ethnicity, have forgotten that. This is the base of a present day controversy that discusses whether the united States should give up its "immigration" status due to economic and political causes, actually originated since the first immigrant wave set on North American shore.According to our Western Civilization history, the first people to emigrate from Europe and colonized this North American land were the English, the Colonization migration of the XVII century. Some years after the first settlers arrived, the first British mass exodus landed from the Mayflower, approximately 155,000 in number, mostly as indentured servants, contracted for a specific term of years. Some Scottish and Irish-Scottish peoples came along with them, approximately 12,000 a year. The English government instituted later migrations to the
Emigration from Europe once again was founded in political issues that led to the escape of those immigrants. The outside views of these immigrants were very different. Now the American society was clearly divide into two kinds of people, the "old" Americans and the "new" immigrants. From those new immigrants the most accountable of them were the Italian and the Jewish immigrants. The next period between 1865 and 1929 was characterized by the American industrial leadership; the United States was the world's leading producer of steel, coal, automobiles and trucks, electrical equipment and much more. Old and new white supremacists' organization such as the Ku Klux Klan was revived in 1915. After their entrance in this country, anti-immigrant feelings began to rise once again in the 1840s, especially among the Irish. There was the time for American public schools to take a new role: to teach new immigrants' children English and their moral and civic responsibilities of American citizens, to assimilate. Catholic peoples included German, Swiss, French and Poles. They too suffered from racism and institutionalized discrimination, since they were a darkened skin minority. It was not the same situation for Hispanics; most Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants were oppressed in their countries, economically or politically speaking. These groups of people were the Chinese who had heard about the Californian gold and called the United States as the "Golden Mountain" country. Hence the word "dominant" society versus the word "subordinated" people came into the context.
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Cultural Diversity,
Irish Catholics,
Life United,
Negroes' Know-Nothings,
Revolution XVIII,
Immigration United,
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irish catholics,
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'all created,
xx century,
read 'all created,
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'all created equal,
wave migration,
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