HIST 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Protestant Culture, Acculturation
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Reform, empire, americanization, and these kinds of issues (whole culture that involvers immigrants and people overseas) There are aspects that are much more coercive than other aspects. Maybe they would threaten american control if they weren"t properly assimilated to. It fits right in to what we"ve been studying: the whole idea that white protestant. American culture is and should be protected as the standard for the us (and you create. Jim crowe laws/anti-immigrant laws/change voting patterns/create harsh systems in overseas empires/and harsh acculturation settings for natives in the land/rigorous public school settings salting the flag/pledging allegiance that really reinforce. American life and make it different more than they just disappear and go into some waspy pot: mexican americans: good example of the futility of trying to impose wasp values across this region/population. Even lulac, accepting of america as a wasp nation (we want people to learn english), but they"re also saying they want latinos to be seen as americans.
