If some immigrants continued to believe that the streets ofNew Yorkwere paved with gold, more were driven by the hunger and hardship of their native lands. The Irish potato famine of 1845 brought almost a million people toAmericain five years. American manufacturers advertised in European ...
It is thought that the term ‘luck of the Irish’ was originally a derogatory phrase, insinuating that Irish miners could only find gold because they were lucky, not because of any skill or hard work. There is a common theme of discrimination against Irish people in the past. Many Irish p...
In western society, vegans experience discrimination and bias on a par with other minor groups.These displays of enmity towards vegans represent a puzzling escalation in hostilities, just as a consensus is starting to form that eating less meat would almost certainly be better for everyone – and...
The paradox of integration: why do higher educated new immigrants perceive more discrimination in Germany?doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1480359Jan-Philip SteinmannRoutledge
Current immigrants of Hispanic origin face discrimination and challenges similar to previous immigrant groups. Further, Hispanics as a percent of US population have increased from ~7% in 1980 to nearly 20% in 2023. Many of the newly arrived Hispanics find employment in lower-paying jobs. Despite ...
wowed crowds—and even Eleanor Roosevelt—with her powerful voice. Anderson eventually became the first Black performer to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. Anderson also became a regular performer at the White House, singing patriotic songs with gusto despite her own country’s discrimination against ...
A former centre-right Canadian Prime Minister wanted to introduce a barbarous cultural practices test (“Would you want your daughters to have ritual genital mutilation?”) on either new immigrants or people applying to immigrate, can’t remember which. He had to rescind it as...
The hostility wasn't just in the corridors of power either. In the 19th century, many native-born Americans were fearful that large numbers of Irish and Italian immigrants would bring crime and disease. Even back in 1751, Benjamin Franklin denounced the large numbers of Germans flooding in to...
I suppose it was inevitable that “invasive” species—species that take over a new area, often far from their native habitat—would be compared by the “progressive” Left to human immigrants, and thus the impact of these species minimized or even lauded. That’s the conclusion you can draw...
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