When focusing on race and ethnicity the real problem of social class differences gets brushed under the rug. If America could realize that we are all the race and focus on social class differences we could really become the United States of America. 3. [3-4 sentences, each] What is a major weakness you see in each man’s argument? Benn Michaels' argument has a major weakness, because what he is asking America, that is to ignore racial differences, is so far fetched that it would never be able to happen.
Some countries were reactionary, Piedmont, Modena, The Papal States and Naples, trying to erase all memory of Napoleonic rule and changing everything back to the way it had been before, even though it could be argued that Napoleonic rule improved conditions for the majority of people in Italy, the lower classes especially. Other rulers reacted Progressively, Tuscany and Parma, taking what Napoleon had done and building upon it or working with it to create a better state of living for everyone. Trying to unify Italy would mean either following one of these ideals or the other, so not everyone would be pleased with which ever choice the unified Italy’s government made. One country in Europe was
Italy was divided in terms of wealth; the south was poor and the north wealthy. Both the North and South seemed to live different existences, although there were many northern Italians who still remained poor. The new liberal government rightly saw a struggle to create a united Italy with such a dominant history of division. Moreover in order to make such drastic new policies to the country it was vital the new government was
Throughout the history of the United States Italians and other ethnic groups of color did not have the opportunity to celebrate their symbolic identity, but rather had a socially imposed racial identity. Racist attitudes, or prejudice, were held by a substantial portion of the U.S. population when Italians first immigrated to America. When Italians immigrated to the country originally race mattered, and by some Italians were not considered White. Italians have struggled throughout history to identify themselves as being White and have a symbolic identity. According to Richards Italian Americans were a targeted group of immigrated groups regarded as “nonvisibly black and suppressed or tried to suppress multicultural traditions that might try to protest such racism” (Richards, p.13) There have been trends in the current history of the United States to take on an American identity.
It is derived from misunderstanding and miscommunication. Latin Americans should not have to accept assimilation into American society, nor should Americans try to force it upon them. To solve the disagreements and weed out discrimination, the two cultures must become interdependent (Beebe, Beebe, & Redmond, 2011, p. 217) and learn to not only exist harmoniously, but to depend upon each other. While many of the prejudices that once existed towards Latin Americans have been eradicated from our society, there remains the conflict of racism and of hesitation to allow citizenship to those who would come here searching for their own “American dream.” As it was stated earlier, the United States declared their own independence under the precedence that all of mankind was inclined to the same unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For those of us who belong to the American culture, it is our responsibility to uphold this belief and make room for those who seek the same opportunities as
Mazzini gave tremendous support to Italian Nationalism and he spent most of his time convincing Italians to support the creation of a democratic, self-governing state of Italy. His complex ideas such as ‘The Brotherhood of people’ meant that he had limited appeal to upper classes, and his radical views also did not appeal to the middle classes and liberals who opposed violence. The revolutions in support for national unity in the years 1848-9 meant that for 18 months the Italian peninsula was in turmoil until the gains won by liberals were reversed and the revolutions that had taken place were suppressed. To a large extent I agree that Mazzini’s limited appeal contributed to slow progress, however I think that there are other over-riding factors such as the influence of the Church and lack of foreign support that would have also contributed. It could be argued that Mazzini’s ideas were the main reason for the slow progress of national unity in Italy in the years 1815-48.
Mussolini wanted Italy to survive on self-sufficiency -which wasn’t surprising for a nationalist country. Mussolini wanted Italy to produce for itself all its major needs. Mussolini did this by increased control on currency, quotas on imports, increased tariff production, the search for new energy sources. However, the reality was not as good as Mussolini wanted. There were virtually no coal supplies, prices increased, some industries hit and the domestic production was only one fifth of what was needed.
Crystal Batayeh Jarenski Comm. 306 16 October 2013 Coming to America: The Real Story Living in America is a dream to many, and sometimes it is made into a reality. Immigrants on the daily enter our country in hopes of a better life and the independence and freedom our country holds. Our country has often been called the melting pot (more recently the salad bowl) because of all the culture we previously and currently still embody. People across the world come here in hopes of the “American Dream” and for some, it does happen, but at what cost?
One of the causes of these failures was that the discontent that prompted the people to initiate a revolution was in most cases of a local nature meaning that revolutionaries in different states would have had very little if not no incentive to come to each other’s aid. For example the temporary revolutionary government established in Bologna actually refused the Modenese revolutionaries pleas for help. This is hardly surprising when we consider how locally orientated the aims of the revolutionaries were, for example one of the main reasons for the attempted revolution in Sicily was to attain independence from Naples to which it had being forcibly united with in 1815, this was something that people outside of Sicily would have cared very little about if at all. Because of the fact that many of the
Why did the early revolutions fail to unite Italy? From 1820- 1831 there were a series of revolutions which all tried to change Italy in some way. However all these revolutions failed to unite Italy for multiple reasons, many of which interlink with one and other however during these years there was no necessity to unify Italy as a whole, this coupled with the fact that there was not enough support, no strong leader and no real plan did not bode well for the unification of Italy. Primarily, it is important to identify that each state of Italy did not actually have any intention of uniting Italy as a whole therefore it is not a surprise that the early revolutions failed to unite Italy. One of the most important reasons as to why the early revolutions did not prove successful when uniting Italy was because each revolutionaries in the different states had different aims.