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Why have Americans throughout history and currently seen immigrants in a negative light?
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∙ 11y ago
People in power (government officials) have always associated (blamed) all the bad things that happen in the United States to minorities and immigrants. When the United States was in war with Germany, German immigrants were segregated and treated like criminals. When the United States was about to go to war with Japan, Japanese immigrants (and American born) were put in concentration camps and treated like criminals. When the Great Depression hit America, anti-immigrants blamed it on immigrants and said that they were taking all of our jobs, which they were not.
Now, for today's anti-imigration views. America hasn't change a single bit in the past 200 years, today there are people that still believe that immigrants (usually thought of as only "Mexicans") are taking our jobs, which is not true just like it wasn't true in the past 200 years. Mexicans are the most segregated immigrant (and American born) people in the United States due to many reasons. People are afraid of today's immigrants because they believe they are associated with the drug cartels and gangs, which is not true at all, although there are a few that do come for those reasons it's not a good enough reason to treat all Mexicans like criminals. With high unemployment our politicians are using the same scare tactic they have used for hundreds of years: "they are taking our jobs".
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agothey are afraid they will do to us what we did to the american indians, the REAL americans
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Why did Americans have negative feelings towards immigrants?
Actually they don't. It is the loudest people that seem to make it seem that way. This is a nation of immigrants and 70% of the population ancestors came as immigrants at one time. Other nations are more homogeneous and as a consequence don't have the variety of foods, music, traditions ( the Christmas tree is from Germany. Halloween pumpkins began in Ireland) and the only true people who aren't immigrants is Native Americans. Many of our industrialists and inventors were immigrants and Jackson's parents were Irish immigrants. This is truly a melting pot of people and we are very lucky because of it.
Who or what challenged negative ideas about the African Americans?
W.E.B. DuBois
Why did w e b du bois organize the exhibit of Americans negroes?
To counter negative stereotypes
Why were American ready for reconstruction to end?
Many Americans were affected by reconstruction because it was affecting a large part of the population in a negative way, and the South was suffering heavily, and because of that many of our main cash production decreased, and suddenly the south became less and less popular, as many African Americans and other immigrants moved down to the North in search of jobs and freedom and equality.
What of the columbian exchange was negative for native americanS?
the introduction of smallpox
How did prejudice create problems for some immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
More than half of the people in most big Americans cities were immigrants or children of immigrants.
What are wo negative developments from the time of Reconstruction?
1. The KKK ( Ku Klux Klan) was formed. 2. Many Republicans, African-Americans, Roman Catholics, Immigrants, Jews and the Americans that defended the African-Americans.
Do immigrants have a negative effect on the us?
Not much...
What is downward assimilation?
It's when a group of immigrants assimilate into the native culture and take up some of its negative features. An example would be second generation Asian-Americans having a higher rate of single motherhood than first generation immigrants.
Are illegal immigrants helping Americans?
Illigal immigrants help to Americans in the same quality and level as they do not help Americans and even by their illegal activities dowing to zero all positive help that was provided. Saing in different but close format: ligal immigrants help to Americans in the same level as they do not help and even decrease by their activities a positive level of help that was provided. The most common reason of positive help that was provided by illegal immigrants: 1. Performing low-intelligence and dirty jobs which are not going to be performed or taken to be performed by local citizens for "laugh-like" salaries proposed and paied by local citizens. The most common reason of negative presence of illegal immigrants: 1. In absence of a job and more or less reasonable conditions to live or in abcence of a desire to earn money by difficult but honest labor - the sharp increase of illegal and lawl-breaking (crime) actions against 1st- same illegal immigrants and following- against local ligal sitizens.
How do you Synchro Summon a Synchro monster that has a negative level for example negative 8?
Currently, no Synchro monster has a negative level.
Is this a positive or a negative change why?
Industrial Revolution had both negative and positive change in the Americans.
Are most Americans Rh negative are Rh Postive?
Most Americans are Rh positive.
Why did Americans have negative feelings towards immigrants?
Actually they don't. It is the loudest people that seem to make it seem that way. This is a nation of immigrants and 70% of the population ancestors came as immigrants at one time. Other nations are more homogeneous and as a consequence don't have the variety of foods, music, traditions ( the Christmas tree is from Germany. Halloween pumpkins began in Ireland) and the only true people who aren't immigrants is Native Americans. Many of our industrialists and inventors were immigrants and Jackson's parents were Irish immigrants. This is truly a melting pot of people and we are very lucky because of it.
What were the negative effects of the transcontinental railroad?
It made many Native Americans have to leave their reservation, they had trouble living and surviving after this.It polluted the aircreated more jobs ( like the job of building the railroads) that abused and under-paid their workers ( mostly immigrants)
Racism was used to justify negative attitudes toward both slaves and immigrants from?
Ireland - apex
What percent of Americans have a negative net worth?
25%
