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History
I should start this answer by noting that I am an Asian American (half Filipino) born in 1970. This means that I have been an Asian American for all of the last four decades. My answer to this...
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History
Asian immigration to the United States has occurred largely for the same reasons that immigration from other areas has. Asians have come to the US because they have wanted to escape bad conditions...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
In a debate, an opening statement must set out the basics of your argument. It must let the audience know what side you are taking in the debate and it must give a number of arguments for your...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
This article was written in 2010. The author of the article was lamenting what he saw as a rising tide of hatred toward Islam as a faith and towards Muslims as individuals. He argued that the...
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History
Immigrants have changed American society in tremendous ways since 1865. It is impossible to say in any objective way which group has had the greatest impact. If we look at our society today, we...
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Essay Lab
A persuasive or argumentative essay must include very specific things in order to be considered successful. First, an essayist must consider (or find) evidence which supports the stand. In the...
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Social Sciences
In the United States, newcomers found economic prosperity, democratic government and the final element were freedom and liberty. Different waves of immigrants had different reasons or rationale for...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
The main reason why so many people from Ireland migrated to North America during the 19th century was the event that is commonly known as the Irish Potato Famine. This was an event that began in...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
At least officially, it is not really accurate to say that we accept all people who want to come to our shores in the way that Emma Lazarus’s poem suggests that we do. This was much truer at the...
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History
Italians were not very much represented in the first groups of immigrants that came to the United States. There were very few Italians in the US for most of the 1800s. However, in the late 1800s,...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
Beginning in the time of the California Gold Rush, and continuing until the ban on such immigration in the 1880s, many Chinese people came to the United States as immigrants. The bulk of them came...
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History
There were a number of things that caused the United States to impose quotas on immigrants in the 1920s and, to some degree, in the 1930s. First, we can say that racism had an impact. Asians were...
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History
In the 1800s, there were two main waves of immigration to the United States. These were the “old immigrants” (though of course they were not called that at the time) in the 1840s and the...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
If you are talking about immigration to the United States, the LPC clause came from a law that was passed in 1882, not in 1912. The acronym “LPC” stands for “liable to become a public...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
The immigrants who came largely from Europe during the period that you are asking about in this question encountered many problems. They typically encountered economic problems. These problems...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
In my opinion, people who think that bilingualism is going to permanently divide America ignore both history and social science. Looking at the evidence from history, there is no reason to think...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
While it is impossible to know for sure what will happen, it appears that it is very likely that immigration reform will pass. The reason for this is that the Republican Party, which has been very...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
There are two other countries whose debates on immigration are relatively familiar to me. These are Japan and Singapore. There are at least two major differences between our debates and theirs....
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
Illegal immigration has impacted American thinking on immigration mostly in negative ways. That is, Americans have become somewhat less inclined to support immigration in general as they have come...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
In general, while economic conditions have not been the only thing that has affected our attitudes towards immigrants and our policies toward them, we have generally been less welcoming to...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
I think that a very strong argument can be made that one of the most painful casualties of the September 11 Attacks was immigration reform and the perception of the immigration issue. The instant...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
One the one hand, we can say that America is clearly more of a “salad bowl” than it was in, for example, the 1950s. In the 1950s, there were not many unassimilated immigrants. Today, we have...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
Since the founding of the United States, there have been three main waves of immigration. These waves have consisted of different types of people and have occurred in different circumstances....
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
There were two main changes in the patterns of immigration in the 1970s and 1980s. First, immigration increased dramatically. Second, new kinds of people started to come to the United States....
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
The main impact of the Vietnam War on immigration to the United States had to do with an increase in immigration from Vietnam and the surrounding areas. During the Vietnam War, the United States,...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
The main reason for this is that these two groups are in very different situations and therefore have different interests. When immigrants first come to the US, they often want to take any job they...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
First of all, we must note that every immigrant group has assimilated “to one degree or another” since that could cover everything from complete assimilation to almost zero assimilation. Thus,...
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U.S. Immigration and Migration
Of these options, the first option is the best. This comes about because of something that is known as chain migration. The process of chain migration starts when one person or a few people from a...