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Immigration

People who didn’t face discrimination:

→W.A.S.P’m

W

White

A

Anglo

S

Saxon

P

Protestant

‘m

Men

Old Immigrants

New Immigrant

  • Before 1885

  • North + Western Europe

  • Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Finland,

  • China, Mexico(Exceptions)

  • Most Fit into W.A.S.P.’m

  • After 1885

  • Southern + Eastern Europe

  • Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Estonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia

  • Don’t usually fit into W.A.S.P.’m

Culture

  • Food

  • Religion

  • Clothing

  • Art

  • Music

  • Dance

  • Language

  • Legends/Stories

  • Government

  • Economy

  • Holidays

→Culture is vastly different between New and Old Immigrants

New Immigrants

  • They are Culturally “Different”

  • They Protect Culture

Ethnic Neighborhoods

  • Places where immigrants could protect their culture

  • They can raise their kids in a similar place as themselves

  • Examples

    • German Immigrants created Germantowns

    • Chinese Immigrants created Chinatowns

    • Welsh valley for people from Wales

    • Bala Cynwyd is Welsh

    • Italian Markets in South Philly

  • Made to improve the experience of immigrating

Push Factors & Pull Factors

Push Factors

Pull Factors

→What makes you want to leave your country?

  • Bad Economy

  • War

  • Famine-Little food(Example is the Irish Potato Famine)

  • Persecution-Treat Badly (An example is the pogroms in Russia to try to remove Jewish people)

  • Racial Persecution

  • Religious Persecution

  • Ethnic Persecution(Ethnic Cleansing)

  • Drought

→What makes you want to go to a new country (US)

  • Jobs

  • Economy-The streets are filled with gold

  • Land

  • Safety

  • Freedom

  • Opportunity

  • “The US doesn’t guarantee anything other than opportunity”

A

Immigration

People who didn’t face discrimination:

→W.A.S.P’m

W

White

A

Anglo

S

Saxon

P

Protestant

‘m

Men

Old Immigrants

New Immigrant

  • Before 1885

  • North + Western Europe

  • Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Finland,

  • China, Mexico(Exceptions)

  • Most Fit into W.A.S.P.’m

  • After 1885

  • Southern + Eastern Europe

  • Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Estonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia

  • Don’t usually fit into W.A.S.P.’m

Culture

  • Food

  • Religion

  • Clothing

  • Art

  • Music

  • Dance

  • Language

  • Legends/Stories

  • Government

  • Economy

  • Holidays

→Culture is vastly different between New and Old Immigrants

New Immigrants

  • They are Culturally “Different”

  • They Protect Culture

Ethnic Neighborhoods

  • Places where immigrants could protect their culture

  • They can raise their kids in a similar place as themselves

  • Examples

    • German Immigrants created Germantowns

    • Chinese Immigrants created Chinatowns

    • Welsh valley for people from Wales

    • Bala Cynwyd is Welsh

    • Italian Markets in South Philly

  • Made to improve the experience of immigrating

Push Factors & Pull Factors

Push Factors

Pull Factors

→What makes you want to leave your country?

  • Bad Economy

  • War

  • Famine-Little food(Example is the Irish Potato Famine)

  • Persecution-Treat Badly (An example is the pogroms in Russia to try to remove Jewish people)

  • Racial Persecution

  • Religious Persecution

  • Ethnic Persecution(Ethnic Cleansing)

  • Drought

→What makes you want to go to a new country (US)

  • Jobs

  • Economy-The streets are filled with gold

  • Land

  • Safety

  • Freedom

  • Opportunity

  • “The US doesn’t guarantee anything other than opportunity”