http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/05_history-projects/05_mccune_Immigrants.htm
The project that I have found
online supports the Idea of the ‘Salad Bowl’ The project talks about how
crucial immigration on the whole has been to the United States over the last
hundred years, explaining that without it you wouldn’t have the diversity that you
have today, in some ways making the USA bland.
The project talks about how
immigrants to the United States localized in certain specific areas, which
created clusters of them – whether this was for safety in numbers, familiarity
or if it just naturally happened that way. This highlights that there could
have been tensions between communities, which doesn’t support the idea of the
melting pot. You have ‘Little Italy’s’ forming on the East coast as they came
from Europe, along with British, Irish and German clusters forming. Then on the
West coast you have the clusters of China as they looked for gold hoping to get
rich quick.
Surprisingly it shows with competition
for jobs, it was the white British that always won – resulting in the Chinese
to be banned from coming to the States as they were seen to be stealing jobs
and carried with them a negative atmosphere – another point which shows that
not all the different nations immigrating to America were seen as one.
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