In the 1800’s 12 million people came into the United States to Ellis Island. That means that 40% of people today ancestors landed at the center. With them came all the wonderful foods, music, inventions, philosophy, education, and cultures. In the civil war 60% of the men fighting were Irish immigrants and Andrew Jackson’s parents were Irish immigrants and he had lost his father and brother in the revolution. The United States culture is a combination of the immigrants who have come and raised families.
The nature of immigration to America changed over time by pool
There have been many immigrants who came to America from the Caribbean over the years. There have been over 3.5 million immigrants who came from the Caribbean.
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Asian Immigration has had no real effect on Latin American religion. Japanese immigrants are mostly non-religious as are some Chinese immigrants. The remaining Chinese immigrants practice Chinese Folk religions but do not proseltyize or bother Latin Americans over faith issues. Filipinos are already Catholic, so there is no religious change when they arrive in Latin America (which is predominantly Catholic).
Asian Immigration has had no real effect on Latin American religion. Japanese immigrants are mostly non-religious as are some Chinese immigrants. The remaining Chinese immigrants practice Chinese Folk religions but do not proseltyize or bother Latin Americans over faith issues. Filipinos are already Catholic, so there is no religious change when they arrive in Latin America (which is predominantly Catholic).
They come from countries all over the world.
Most people that came to America didn't come on any particular boat. There have been millions of immigrants to the United States over the centuries, and no one boat accounts for "most" of those immigrants.
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It might be said that the United States is a nation of immigrants because for 400-years people from all over the world have come to America looking to start a new life. They came for many different reasons including escaping war-torn countries, freedom of religion, to escape poverty, and others just for a change of scenery.
If you count all people in the USA of European background, most of the population are immigrants. Only the Native Americans are not fairly recent immigrants - they arrived over 20,000 years ago.