In the 16th century the church played a huge role in the lives of people in Europe, however, in some parts and Germany in particular, the Church was seen as not responding to the appetite for spiritual fulfillment and failing in some of its duties. The Church was involved not just spiritually but economically, politically and educationally; therefore, any corruption within the Church had consequences all over Christendom. The role of the Church was to perform the seven sacraments in order for Catholics to reach their goal – salvation. Firstly, the Church was resented because it was corrupt. This was resented in Germany because it seemed hard to obtain salvation and live a spiritual life when the representatives of Christianity were dishonest.
To what extent was Racism the main reason for changing attitudes towards Immigration in the 1920s It can be argued that racism was the main reason for changing attitudes towards immigration in the USA in the 1920s. The three immigration acts put tighter restrictions on who was deemed worthy enough to live and work in the USA. Other factors included political fears of Eastern European ideologies such as communism and anarchism, economic factors such as jobs and housing, and social factors such as crime, religion and culture. All of these created much hostility and discrimination towards many hopeful immigrants. They were a precursor to violence and rioting in what was a fundamentally racist society.
Another complaint was that King John angered the Roman Catholic Church, which led to every church service in England being banned and the Pope excommunicating him. With this the people and barons were scared. The Catholic Church taught that the people could only ascend into heave if the Catholic Church believed that the people
To what extent was Wilhelmine Germany rived by internal tensions’ There were many reasons as to why Wilhelmine Germany had internal tensions and strains. A lot of these reasons are to do with the political side and the contradictions to do within Germany being seen as constitutional and democratic and then not issuing any of these policies. There are issues within the political parties themselves and conflating ideologies, as well as with the chancellors, the Kaiser and the government. Again another source of tensions was the growing minorities and varying races and religions making up a large part of Whilhelmine Germany, whom were treated immorally. All of these strains add up to make a tension filled country with a lot of underlying problems, that were contradictions to what is portrayed.
Contributing factors are; the changing nature of immigration and entrenched WASP racism, pre-existing legislation before 1920s, WWI and isolationism, economic fears, social and religious fears, and political fears. Political fears did to an extent have an effect on the increasing hostility towards immigrants, however this was perhaps not the most significant factor. Until the 1880s the vast majority of immigrants were White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPS) They came from countries such as Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany. The were mostly Protestants who spoke English, which came to be the official language of the United States. Their decendents thought themselves to be 'native born americans' and came to dominate American society.
North Vietnamese were against the Americans during the war and had multiple reasons in hating Americans. Some reasons they hated Americans were because the North Vietnamese “deaths were very many” (Adams) and because of the “the poisons Americans dropped” (Adams) onto their land. By having so many deaths, the families of those people were sad and the North Vietnamese troops lessened. The poisons
Many of the immigrants had their own personal reasons to move to America, but there were some major push and pull factors that brought them here. One of the biggest push factors for them would be persecution. Persecution was a major problem especially for the People in Russia. In the movie An American Tale Fievel and his family had to leave Russian because they were sick and tiered of being tormented and having their things destroyed. The Jews were killed and bullied to the point where people had to leave their own country to seek safety and hopes of not being persecuted.
The United States does have a strong history of hostility towards specific immigrant groups such as the Nativists who opposed Irish immigration around 1850 and systematic bias against Japanese and German immigrants just before and after the second world war. Jews were also popular targets in the 20th centuary. These days most hostility is geared towards the Latin American immigrants as they are seen to be the largest group of immigrants entering the United States today. Some Americans have not completely adjusted to the largely non-European immigration and racism does occur. Hostility towards people of middle-eastern descent has also become apparent after the September 11th attacks conducted by an Islamic extremist group known as Al Qaeda.
The first immigrants didn’t like the new comers. The new comers had cultural and economic threats against them and brought in a variety of different religion. Due to immigration, this created the Klu Klux Klan, also known as the KKK. The KKK practiced systematic terror against blacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners. Their goal was to create segregation and stop immigration
It was very difficult for the Irish to deal with on top of all the other hardships they were coping with. The Protestant Americans were extremely against accepting the Catholic Irish as a faith in their country. This idea only continued the separation and isolation the Irish as a culture faced. To escape this inevitable persecution, “Many changed their accents, names and even religion to escape discrimination. Others turned to alcohol and crime.