Actually, though, America, the "land of immigrants", has always had people of many different nationalities and languages. The 1990 census indicates that almost 14% of Americans speak a non English language at home. Yet only 3% reported that they spoke English "not well" or "not at all"....
America is known as land of immigration, so why do we look at immigrants in a negative way today?certain descriptive concepts
ANationofImmigrantsTheNativeAmerican1942ChristopherColumbusOpeningOfTheNewSeaRoutetheNewWorldIndiansQuestionFourhundredyearsago,theonlypeopleinAmericawereindigenousnativeAmericans.Howdidallthosewhitepeople,Asians,etc.getthere?Theansweris:They,ortheirancestors,immigratedfromsomewhereelse.TheCompositionofU.SPopulation,2007Ame...
The USA is a land of immigrants. Between 1815 and 1914 the world witnessed the greatest peaceful migration in its history: 35 million people mostly Europeans left their homelands to start new lives in America. Why did these people risk everything by leaving their homes and families? First wha...
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AmericaNationofImmigrants美国移民国家.ppt,A Nation of Immigrants The Native American 1942 Christopher Columbus Opening Of The New Sea Route the New World Indians Question Four hundred years ago, the only people in America were indigenous native Americans
Early immigrants were predominantly White Europeans that farmed the land and tried hard to find enough food to eat and a warm place to live. The Industrial Revolution brought new types of jobs which required communication and skills. Today there are 38.5 million immigrants living in the United ...
political oppression and religious persecution in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better education and life attracted an increasing number of immigrants of other counties flocking to American continent, where they established their American Dream---the dream of a land in which...
Immigrant population has formed over many hundreds of years. Newcomers have arrived in large waves when jobs were plentiful and resources were unlimited; and immigration slowed during times of economic recession. Early immigrants were predominantly White Europeans that farmed the land and tried hard to...
As Americans grapple with understanding the newcomers in their midst, they often hark back to the triumphs and tribulation s of European immigrants who came in the great in ux a century ago. The old-time immigrants are remembered as exulting in their arrival in the promised land, eager to ...