DTS201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Castration Anxiety, United States Public Health Service, Economic Equilibrium
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Example of how anti-immigrant rhetoric has always been a mechanism of social control and national identification for the us - part of the fabric. Have to have biological origins to be part of a county. Focuses on two historical moments to make his point (analyses book) The anti immigrant movement of the know-nothings in the mid 19th century. Political ideology of immigrants is the main focus. In order to be a full citizen five conditions had to be fulfilled (as per. Thomas whitney: remoteness from parent government, aristocratic discourse. Interest in community based mutual protection: wild and romantic habits of life, reliance of divine providence and an innate resistance to despotic authority which is inherited from puritan ancestors. Believed that not all have the intellectual abilities to enjoy these rights there for the don"t deserve them. Culturally unadaptable: mismatch of political ideology - already have mind created, wont be able to fit into the democratic political ideology.