Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
Man my day is done and I noticed something after a few weeks in my history class. The US has always been anti immigration ._. The Chinese exclusion act of 1882 , the immigration act of 1922 and the national origins act. Something I learned
The reason they've been anti immigration in a land of immigrants is simple...fear of the "other". The only people who weren't afraid fight away were the First Nation (aka Native Americans), but they realized real quick that the first European immigrants came here to grab land and resources really quick.
If you look through American history, all immigrant groups have suffered when they first got here, including Mexicans too (of which you should know about very well). Irish, Germans, Italians, Russians, Jews, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, Chinese, etc. You name it, there were laws in places to limit numbers who entered and other curtailing measures. Now the new folks of this are Muslims and Mexicans (again).
African-Americans (especially the US born ones) get put in a different label becuase of chattel slavery. The difference between the first 5 groups and everybody else is when the middle class was being reshaped, they were elevated into that void...and racially fit because they can pass as "white". If you look at the "white middle class", you'll see it littered in early generation immigrants from many countries, a significant number came from Israel, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Russia and other European countries.
Young man, you've got a lot to learn it's not even funny...
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