To place ethnicity ahead of Americanism is to intentionally fracture the American society, and is not the act of a true American.
No:Assimilate to what? The US hasn't even achieved assimilation of populations that have been there for centuries. Should the newcomers assimilate to white America or black America? Because the two don't seem to have much in common, apart from rap.The "American Dream" used to be about opportunity. I don't remember anything about having to stop being who you are. It was about the possibility of becoming, not about the prohibition of diversity.
A homogenized society is a culturally and ideologically impoverished society. US vitality owes much to the inputs of successive waves of hyphenated Americans. To accept diversity is not to put ethnicity ahead of nationhood, it's to acknowledge that difference has always been a part of the American story.
Nativists believed that fewer immigrants should be allowed in the country because they felt that immigrants took jobs away from native-born Americans, caused social problems, and diluted American culture and values. They also feared that immigrants would not assimilate into American society easily.
immigrants should play by the rules.
Yes, because they don't pay their taxes as much and their needs to be a limited amount because then immigrants may control America
Nativists believed that Immigrants wanted to destroy America.
America by nature is country of immigrants. some of the best minds in America were immigrants. the majority of the men who invented the u.s's atomic bomb were from Germany. Immigrants should always be helped by the government, in my opinion, because who is to say that Americans deserve the help and they don't; simply because one child was born in Haiti, and another in the U.S. It's simply a matter of political standing.
They believed America should live up to the promise of freedom.
they meet people and they tell them that they should go to America because its great so they go and yeah they stay
The New MrSpock (Xbox Live Gamertag) says that if the cost of living, out-sourcing of jobs/ lack of jobs, and inflation persist we should carfully reduce the limit of immigrants coming into the United States of America.
North America, (specifically the USA) has always been a 'nation of immigrants', beginning with Europeans who immigrated here, raping the environment, the natural resources and the natives. Non-European immigrants have brought industry, innovation, manual labor and diversity to America.***(Mexico, Central and South America have also been raped by European 'immigrants', only to a much greater degree).***The majority of Americans have 'immigrant' blood in their veins, from both the voluntary and involuntary 'immigrants'.***The immigrants who come here today do the work that most Americans won't. They thrive on lower standards of living than most Americans would put up with and the majority of them work harder, for less pay. They benefit the nation, as well as the economy and should be allowed to continue their immigration.***Quit your whining.***America is a very wealthy nation and most Americans are 'spoiled rotten'. The "Americans" who complain about 'immigration' seem to be complaining only about 'non-European' immigrants. Don't think for a minute that this is not obvious to the World.***Anything Americans worry about losing to 'immigrants' was most likely stolen from the Native-Americans in the first place. American society has had and will always have room at the 'bottom rung of the ladder' for immigrants, minorities, the 'under educated' and the poor. America should remain a nation of 'immigrants'.
Nativism resulted in a conflict between Americans that were born in America and the immigrants because the government favored the immigrants and the Americans felt as if the immigrants should be treated the same way as Americans.
we should let then in because most of them are coming to America either to escape something bad in there country or to get a job to provide for there family either to escape
The primary belief motivating the Americanization movement was that immigrants should adopt American cultural values, language, and customs in order to assimilate into American society and become productive citizens. The movement aimed to promote unity and loyalty to the United States.