Study Guide for Final Exam Test 3 AMH 2097 11 Spring 2013 Robbins The exam is Friday May 3rd at 7 30am in our classroom The groups ideas included for this exam are Southern Italians Mexicans Cubans Germans 19th century Middle East and the Immigration Restriction Laws The films you will be responsible for are Godfather Godfather II A Better Life and Scarface You will also be responsible for Political Cartoons for the Mexicans found on Blackboard Lecture 8 Southern Italians Inferior Race Mongrel Race Honor vendetta virginity Roman Catholic Church Non Institutional Stereotype is that they are stupid and given by Northern Italians They do everything wrong The only important thing for Southern Italians is the family This is the only institution they pay attention to Not religion not gov t The family is their moral guide tells them what is right and wrong You need to murder and you do it Trust no one that is not related by blood Don t listen to them Only trust your family They actively believe that everyone is out to get them Cow dies neighbor did it automatically Only people in the world who think like this They feud not only as a nation but also as families 2 Ways to honor your family 1 Males they live the public life worth with other families they are the settlers 2 Females in charge of the home private life hangout at home Leader of the family is always the male like Chinese Chinese Eldest male Scots Irish Strongest Male Southern Italians the person who holds the most power of a family and that other families respect they are everything MALES Vendetta males represent family do bad representation then other families declare you and your whole family as the enemy put out a vendetta against you and your family Romeo and J is a Vendetta This is how they get a bad reputation Northern Italians say these always end in death Females Practice honor through their virginity only way to link families is through marriage levels of trusting liking people one you decide to marry into a family everyone marries to form huge family A female is the ambassador to the families dynastically for money bread and protection To practice honor she must be a virgin if not you are giving another family used goods Marriage Steps Actual wedding husband wife and parents Go to wives families house throw a reception a party a public uniting of both families now united but not married yet Walk into marital chamber and is followed by all Mom carried her sheets behind her making lace since little Once get to room mom and sisters make the bed Each individually change aunties tuck you both in Do business Take sheets hang them after in the village square showing of the sheets Blood better be on the sheets She is more than likely to be a virgin If not she would say she wants to be nun No blood Disowned family would dishonor other family too and they declare a vendetta on you Not a virgin bc had sex before marriage he knows you aren t a virgin will bring blood Usually a family member who has abused them cant say nun or disown always the woman s fault Virgin Mary Saints and Rosary Spiritual but against the Church as a business Hate everything about Pope makes a lot of money Peasants bc of the Pope St Peters is the largest church in the world southern Italians walk in and see gold everywhere when they are in rags Hatched matched and dispatched Catholics baptism go in for wedding and funeral Difference b w institutional and non institutional Catholics Put up a shrine statues of Virgin Mary saints rosary pray consistently sorry for sins but Church sucks so pray pray pray to Mary and Saints bc in case God and Jesus miss the prayer saints can drop in a good word Pray for themselves to pass test get cow institutional would think that is selfish Magic go to special woman get love potion Taking care of myself right now Problem we burn witches in the USA Run by Catholic Irish Institutional run things So Non Institutional cant do anything Pope makes decision make your own church Individual Parishes What happens when they get here We have real boats like Titanic big 2nd wave now a 2 week voyages price goes down and more people can afford it Tithe Why want to leave Peasants 85 illiterate Cant feel all them overpopulation leave to have a better life natural disaster bc of Mount Vosouveous Ash goes on soil cant plant or grow food kicked off land means no place to work Lastly the taxes or tithe taxes are government taxes for roads and such Tithe is church money Religious tax for the buildings of churches ect These people know how bad we treat immigrants that come to the US We actually send over American s talking about how fab it is in the USA Irony is that they can t read people then have to reproot people and then we are shocked that they come Irony Industrial Revolution Getting factories need unskilled labor so poor wages People are trained to do one little thing 1 button 1 zipper and 1 sleeve Unskilled labor can easily be replaced We have thousands of these jobs Return Migration sojourners Money Voyage costs less now in the reach Family is saving up for this person Cant stay here very long bc you need your family They practice return migration sojourner and birds of flight just like the Chinese Unlike Chinese though they only plan on staying 5 years No reason for you to learn English 70 follow this in 1880 By 1920 10 return Why WW1 1921 is when we finalize the immigration laws Know that if you go home you can t come back Now switch to CHAIN MIGRATION have to bring over the entire family The average family is 25 people Little Italy These are the largest group of people so far Irish is 2 5 million and Southern Italians are 5 million They form an ethnic enclave in Little Italy NYC Boston ports are close 1880 1900 Return migrants don t speak English Padrone They don t have the 6 companies like Chinese they have a PADRONE The represent a little village They are talking in their language and speaking their town names He is going to do great things for you Pandrone though wants money in return Headhunter without him you couldn t fill out a form or anything Typically he has a factory agreement with someone He will be your manager will take out a percentage of your income to pay himself 2 ways pay him on Friday well you claim you didn t make money so they also go directly to the factory owner and hand you back the rest leads to corruption 2 groups of these people people who leave and people who return Padrones Don t do it out of the kindness
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