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ImmigrantExperience
1. Why come to America?
Push Factors
• Extreme poverty
• Farming was not profitable
• Unemployment
• Compulsory military service
• Political tyranny
• Religious oppression
• Persecution
Oppressive power exerted by govt.
Cruel/unjust use of powerWeighed down
Pursue w/ harassing/oppressive
treatment
Pull Factors
• Plenty of land
• Employment
• Higher standard of living
• Democratic political system
• Opportunity for social advancement
• “rags to riches” storiesCarnegie!
2. Americanization
SCHOOLS!!
3. NativismChinese
Exclusion Act
-Barred Chinese immigration for 10 years (1882 )- Prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens
-Preferring native born people over immigrants or foreign born people
4. Cultural DiffusionCultural trait, object, idea or behavior spread from one society to another.
McD’s = our culture in an Arabic culture
Chinese Enclave = Chinese culture in our society
5. Ethnic Neighborhoods
New
York
City
NYC’s Five Boroughs
1932
"...in New York no single country or region of origin
dominates."
El Barrio (Spanish Harlem)
• East Harlem• Manhattan Borough
Hell’s Kitchen
• Irish• Manhattan
East Village
• Polish• Ukrainian• Manhattan
Little Italy
• Italians• Manhattan
Lower East Side
• Jewish• Manhattan
Chinatown
• China• Hong Kong• Manhattan
El Barrio/SpanishEl Barrio/Spanish
“Ethnic neighborhoods becoming thing of past”
Sunday, May 25, 2003
by Gary Rotstein, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
“The neighborhood's groceries still sell special meats and candies imported from Poland, but local Polish-language classes ended with the shutdown of the church's school in 1997.”
