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Summary NHL American Studies Lecture 5
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American StudiesImmigration to the US
The American Dream
Creating a better life for themselves
Refuge for the poor and oppressed
Proud to be an immigrant
All Americans have ancestors who were immigrants
Ladder of ethnic succession
Improvement over their situation in the ‘old country’
Rags to riches?
Ambivalence
Prosperity due to immigrant (welvaart als gevolg van immigranten)
Few restrictions until 1920s
Low wages, bad conditions
Immigrant clung to language and customs
Threat to ‘American culture’
Disturbing the balance
Immigrants Work
Irish Mill towns, cities, railroads and mines
Christian Germans Farmers (American Mid-West), traders (rural
towns)
German Jewish Peddlers, shopkeepers
Chinese Railroads, mines
Irish Immigrants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9i-o9UvX8
In America
Geographic isolation
Chinatown/little Italy
Languages and customs survived
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