History of Immigration

              

After learning about the history of experiences that the immigrants had to go through to get to America, I have had a mixed review on its contradictions of my values of being an American. I think our that these experiences can partially be a reflection to what our values of an American citizen because it has shown that our country is open minded to others by letting them explore our country to create a better lifestyle for themselves. These people have come to America to start a better life and our country has given them an opportunity to get a job and start their new life. The workforce is where I think that this country has contradicted themselves in the values of the American lifestyle. I believe America acted wrongly when they decided to discriminate against these immigrants by putting them in terrible working conditions, with grueling hours, for very low wages. This nation is suppose to be a country full of freedom and these situations that these immigrants are put in, is not allowing them to live a free life. Even though it was great to open the opportunity for immigrants to come to this country, they should have been more lenient to the terrible situations that they were basically forcing them into. 

When seeing some of the photos of the immigrants I felt very bad for these people as they looked helpless and exhausted with no way to success because even if they worked all day, it would not lead them to a very successful life. The people in the pictures were dirty and tired as they had to go through this type of work everyday of their lives since emigrated to America. They were discriminated against because they were assumed to have no skill and not given the chance to strive in a career. This can relate to modern day society because people are still close minded to others of different races and cultures. After seeing what some of these people had to go through it makes me want to be more open minded to all cultures and races around me today. In this modern day there are still stereotypes for cultures in their job associations and their past ways of success in the country. One of the stereotypes that is still portrayed in today's society is that many people think that these immigrants are taking up their jobs while the unemployment rate is decently high. What people do not realize is that these immigrants are taking many jobs that citizens would not want to do like landscaping, construction, carpeting,etc. These immigrants are actually helping our economy by being willing to take these jobs and help businesses stay succesful. Everyone including myself, needs to be more open minded to all citizens of the country no matter the race or cultural background that they have.