Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American? Yes: Gary B. Nash No: David Hackett Fisher Each of the authors of this spirited debate between the uniqueness (or the lack there of) of the American culture presented compelling arguments for their side. Nash feels strongly that the convergence of the three cultures which he refers to as a tri-racial society, in and of itself created a new and unique culture. Regardless of the origins of these cultures, he refers to the unique blend of diverse environmental factors and peoples caused the development of a variety of cultures that were mostly English, part European, and altogether original. He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
In America, a land once referred to as a “Melting Pot,” globalization has been lauded as an important value. However, many of the various people groups that immigrated to America began to lose their cultural identity for the sake of globalization. Over the course of a few generations, this caused America to move towards the “Salad Bowl” theory of globalization. The end
America is one of the most diverse countries in the world because so many people immigrated to the United States in the past in search of new opportunities. Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. People from all over the world travel to the United States for a better life. Without diversity, the United States would not have the culture it does to this day. America needs immigration because immigrants help to develop new ideas, a diversity of culture, and they founded and helped to create the United States.
I don’t buy that, along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, our Creator endowed anyone with the right to sneak into the United States, bypass our laws and set up shop. Maybe our immigration laws do need fixing. But this is a discussion for American citizens. In English”(458). For example, Star Parker is correct because, if you read labels today on any object, they partake in having Spanish right along side with English.
America is known as the “melting pot.” The melting pot refers to people changing their own cultures to fit American culture. Which is called Assimilation. Assimilation is defined as a complex process in which immigrants fully integrate themselves into a new country. Munoz is right when he says that assimilation
This would have given the reader a better idea of how unique and unusual her name is in American society. Dumas could have also given a statistic or poll of the number of foreigners that changed their names after moving to America. This would demonstrate the lengths a person with a foreign name go in order to avoid the discomfort of living with an unusual name in American society. Dumas also makes a claim without backing them with hard evidence. She states that “[she] has found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they’re far more willing to try new ethnic foods” (Dumas 608).
Final Project John Padgett ETH/125 January 20, 2013 Christina Mazzella Final Project The United States has so many different types of people and so many diverse cultures living in the country. I have seen so many different races of people recently and their cultures that have tried to blend in with the American culture while maintaining their own self identities and way of life. The people of the United States have seemed to always be tolerant of different races and cultures that come to America, and try to a part of the American dream. The problem now is that the Americans seem to have become a minority and we are once again fighting to keep our traditions and culture in tact as these different peoples live in our country and share our way of life. It
Naturalization The question is no longer, “How do people become Americans?” but rather “How has America become its people?” Since the days of the colonies, the United States was viewed as the land of opportunity, a globalized estate that was a safe heaven from political tyranny, social prosecution, and economical struggles. As the United States matured however the tolerance of immigrants quickly fell, leaving the White Anglo Saxon Protestant to be the desired people of the land. The image of the country of immigrants that was the building block of the constitution all but excelled. This paper will seek to highlight race-biased legislation as well as feature critical trials in the struggle for equal rights among Asian Americans. From the 1840s
“We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.” (Romney 2012). America consists of foreigners and their descendents, people who all hoped and worked for America to become a better place. Obstacles after obstacles, immigrants have faced a great mass of discrimination because of the simple fact that they are “different”. It is important to realize that a lot of America’s characteristics were shaped and or influenced by immigrants.People like Donald Trump are what we call nativist.