LINGUIS 155AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Hawaiian Pidgin, Native Hawaiians, California State Assembly
12 Jan 2017
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Asians especially chinese are the 2nd largest minority group in u. s. Policy issues on immigrant languages are directly related to u. s. sentiments by immigrants themselves. Connection between immigration policies, and language attitudes towards immigrants and non-english languages. Negative language attitudes extends back to the early history of the u. s. beginning with the european (british) colonies. Get insight into u. s. language attitudes toward immigrant languages. Earlier than 1880"s - massive immigration from people of 9 million southern and eastern europeans to america. 1790: a federal law was passed that reserved naturalized citizenship to white persons. Federalist papers: providence of one country to one united people - descending from same ancestors and speaking same language, religion, manners, customs and principles. Hawaii known by europeans in 1778 by captain james cook. William hooper - 1835 - sent to hawaii to colonize the island and establish first sugar plantation.
