1 10 13 Introduction Lecture 1 Race Nationality and Ethnicity a Definitions of Key Terms i Race Definition the assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics You choose your race A social construct that people made up not a biological fact based on assumptions ii Racism when you take the physical characteristics and you believe that somebody is inferior or superior because of them Believing that somebody is better than you because you are assuming something Example assuming that Asians are better at math and science iii Ethnicity Definition a group of people that have something in common Religion skin color language food culture holidays how they dress Can have one of those things in common or none of those things in common iv Nativism disliking someone because they are a certain ethnicity or from a certain ethnic group that a are from another country v Nationality Example South Floridians feel like Cubans are taking over in reality there is a very small percentage of Cubans in the USA Definition where you were born Today used to refer to what citizenship you hold a Dual Citizenship citizen in two countries Naturalized citizen but wasn t born there vi What the United States does with this information Placed on a chart The Other a 3 Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies Anybody other than you could be different physical characteristics or different clothes i Already placing immigrants at a disservice ii Now use the term alien People on the top are treated well and people on the bottom are not i In America White Anglo Saxon Protestant WASPS Place others into categories based on how different they are from people in power The closer you are to the people in power the closer to the top they are going to put you People on the bottom have been referred to as non humans ii iii 3 4 First Wave 1 2 4 Second Wave 1 2 3 Called Formative Wave because the English believe that they created the United States of America Set up informal and formal laws about how this country is going to work English were the largest group free English do not consider themselves to be immigrants Second largest group was Africans not free Other groups to enter Judeans Northern Italians Scots Irish Germans 1830 1880 Considered the first wave because the English didn t consider themselves to be immigrants First encounter with immigrants didn t know what to do with them so people came as they wanted 3 groups Irish Germans and Chinese 1880 1920 Industrial Revolution People from Central and Eastern Europe Orthodox Catholic Greeks Southern Italians Japanese Russian Jews Ashkenazi Orthodox Polish Czechs All of these people are very different Considered to be the worst wave Ended because we passed an Immigration Law in 1921 iv Fake Wave Not an actual wave America ignored the fact that there is a huge rise in immigration in the ast few years 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 a b c d a b c d 2 The History of Immigration Who comes why and what happens Three Movements Waves of Immigration a i Formative Wave 1 2 1607 1830 establishment of Jamestown First movement of people English over here b Why do immigrants leave 2 Don t admit that there is an immigration situation i War poverty exile corruption natural disaster religious persecution unemployment want iii We are raised to believe that all immigrants want to come here in reality many don t want to be here education want freedom ii An immigrant is usually forced to leave 1 Very rare to have a voluntary migrant and don t want to leave their countries iv Most people don t want to come to the US 1 2 Because is America is not nice to immigrants Because we have enemies v People might come here because 1 We let them United States has the most open immigration policy 2 3 America is the safety school It s easy to get here it has to get better education job opportunities vi Immigrant laws everywhere else are very strict 1 Australia women immigrants cannot work in Australia c How Immigrants Fit In i Assimilation 1 2 1 ii Acculturation Definition when an immigrant understands that they are coming to different country and they give up their former culture and adopt the new culture give up your past and only look forward Complete switch over to the new culture Definition when you accept that you re in a new country and you re going to try to adopt some of the culture as much as you can but you re going to retain your old culture Speaking English in public go home and speak your language a b Most immigrants do this c Any keeping of your culture is acculturation iii The Process 1 How quickly or slowly a Environment can make assimilation faster i Move to somewhere where there is all white people you re going to assimilate very quickly Peer pressure Example White suburbs 1 2 ii The more people like you that you re around the slower you re going to assimilate 1 Example Moving to Chinatown San Francisco Age also determines how fast young fast old slow b c Media how much do you see of it and how much does it help you assimilate i Newspapers television etc d Someone who wanted to come here assimilates faster compared to someone who wants to go home and doesn t want to be here e Marriage your spouse will help you assimilate Even if a person wants to assimilate and does everything they can there are people who cannot assimilate because of the way they look Africans Native Americans Asian a 2 What can make the difference Same as above a iv Un Assimilate able 1 d What does the United States want from Immigrants FIRST 1609 1960 i ii Anglo Conformity 1 2 3 Anglo white Basically complete assimilation Leads to a b Nativism a dislike or hatred toward other ethnicities immigrants Xenophobia a fear of the other anybody who s not you e Today i Cultural Pluralism accepting that cultures are different and liking the representation of different cultures 1 We are happy ii 1980s to Present kind of 9 11 screwed this up 1 After 9 11 we went backwards to Anglo Conformity 3 The Use of Film
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