ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sacco And Vanzetti, Immigration Act Of 1924, Multinational State

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America as the melting pot: the ideal and counterarguments. Melting pot; symbolic of the way people of different cultures, races, ethnicities, and religions combine to develop a multi-ethnic society; cultural assimilation (successful immigrants shed cultural identities and adopt ways of their new country) Equated with total assimilation and conformity of european immigrants. American identity as acculturation and intermarriage of white immigrant groups. Shifted after wwii as us became more racially inclusive and more accepting of interracial marriages. Diverse groups can be part of a single society without giving up cultural traits. Opposed to language and cultural programs that accommodate minorities. Immigrants need not completely abandon their culture and traditions in order to reach unification. 4 main waves of migration to the us. England, france, germany, ireland, italy, netherlands, sweden, wales. 2nd and 3rd waves during the 19th century. Europeans (english, irish, germanic, scandinavian, other nw europeans) migrated to ne us.

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