Introduction to Race Nationality and Ethnicity The History of Immigration Definitions of key terms o Race appearance from your own opinion o Ethnicity the culture a belief system that explains how you act every day you are associated with the way we dress arts music language religion etc o Nationality where your family came from o Race Definition The assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics When you are a person is in power what they think matters You can chose your race but America will chose it for you too Racism when you take the belief of those physical characteristics that you are assuming and you believe that that person is inferior or superior to you because of those characteristics We considered the Irish to be black on the inside we considered them to be worse than African Americans Racism does not always mean treating something inferior ie asking Asians for homework help because you believe them to be superior o Ethnicity Ethnic groups or Ethnicity definition A group that has something s in common We created an ethnicity for people we didn t understand Hispanic We continues Jews in a racist fashion jew first then whatever else you are Jews come from all over the world and don t have anything in common with eachother Nativism a dislike of immigrants or a particular immigrant group because they come from another country Ie if you had power and said you don t want any Indians in 7 11 then you would be passing a nativist law o Nationality Definition old where you were born Ie if you were born in America you are an American new defined by passport citizenship etc Americans base who has a passport or in other case who doesn t what your nationality is America has had a system of immigrants since 1607 If you are a naturalized citizen you are considered to be of American nationality What the United States does with this Information o Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies all countries have this The people on top are the ones with power wasps or white people Where people are placed on the hierarchy is due to their physical characteristics You can move up and down on the hierarchy due to their personality o The Other people you segregate yourself from Anybody other than you that you put yourself superior to and because of this stray away from they The History of Immigration o Three Movements waves of immigration Formative wave primarily wasps 1607 1830 Formative means that they formed the united states of America our culture Who first wasps They did not consider themselves to be immigrants Every group of people that come in after are actually a wave o We also have germans Africans jews coming in wasps ignore these people and form their own country First Wave Second Wave 1830 1880 where we start to see millions of people coming in Who Irish germans chinese from all over the world come in 1880 1920 The largest movement of people to America billions of poeple Who People from greeks Italians Japanese checks etc In 1920 we pass immigration laws after In 1920 the US thought they ended the waves of immigration Right now we have exactly the same number of people coming in as we did in the 1880 s Then not a wave but still many coming Why do they come o Push vs Pull PUSH what pushes you out of your country not a voluntary migrant Religious persecution holocaust lack of resources food potatoe famine jobs government persecuting you falling apart etc Involuntary migrants PULL what pulls you to another everybody has a pull factor Jobs safety the American dream education religious persecution technology health care Voluntary migrants Type of migration How they fit in o Assimilation when a person decides when they move to a new country to completely give up their past culture and become part of the new culture o Acculturation when an immigrant comes from another country and decides they must do something s to fit in ie dress but they will not completely give up their culture ie language o The Process How quickly or slowly What can make the difference Whether or not you want to be part of the culture can make it easier putting an immigrant child in a public school will make it easier to assimilate if you re the only person in your culture around you job where people expect you to be of the dominant culture if your younger you will probably assimilate as opposed to acculturate older would choose to acculturate o Un Assimilate able person who might really want to assimilate and tries to but cannot Due to discrimination learning disability physical appearance What the United States wants from Immigrants A history of Assimilation Acculturation in assimilate America 1 Anglo Conformity 1609 1969 Anglo white Nativism hatred or rejection of immigrants or other cultures Xenophobia fear of the other everybody who is not you anybody different Fear leads to an action Ie fear roach Civil rights movement etc Melting pot has not yet happened yet Melting pot all the American people jump in pot lady liberty mixes and pours us out as tan people entirely different people 2 Melting Pot 1960s 3 Cultural Pluralism 1980s Jump in salad bowl we celebrate that there are differences in our culture Can still tell the lettuce from the tomatoe After 9 11 we went back to anglo conformity We feared people and developed laws due to that fear Anglo Saxon Protestants or English Americans WASPS Who are the WASPS o WASP White Anglo Saxon Protestant White now means fair skin But before referred to pure god heaven angels clean holy English Europeans thought that white meant something They don t describe themselves with white until they came to America and met people who weren t white Anglo Saxon the ethnic backbone of most of northern Europe it is a mixture of a whole bunch of different people Pertaining to a particular type of ethnicity Colonization of the English Immigration of the English o England in 1600 o Colonization Protestant non Catholic Christian All links back to Martin Luther he did not like the way catholic church was ran he changed it and made his own Protestant means you are Christian and NOT catholic Anglo Saxon English Who are the English A group of many different cultures not a homogenous group o Anglos Saxons Gaelic tribes celts o Picts Britons Normans Romans even Vikings England was going through problems and was deciding who would take the thrown Henry VIII had died and he had a catholic daughter protestant son England has a religious background of chaos They are in a serious of wars
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