Question

According to your book, the vast numbers of new immigrants, and the way many of them created distinctive communities, provoked fear and resentment among some native-born Americans. Because of this Old stock Americans encouraged or demand assimilation in countless ways. Can you expand and explain how was assimilation forced on the new immigrants?

Answer 1

SOLUTION

ASSIMILATION ON NEW IMMIGRANTS- ''THE VAST NUMBERS OF NEW IMMIGRANTS''

The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across the globe. The intergration of immigrants and their children contributes to our economic vitality and our vibrant and ever changing culture. We have offered opportunities to immigrants and their children to better themselves and to be fully in-corporated into our society and in exchange immigrants have become Americans - embracing an American identity and citizenshipn, protecting our country through service in our military, fostering technological innovations, harvesting its crops, and enriching everything from the nation's cuisine to its universities, music and art.

Today, the 41 million immigrants in the United states represent 13.1 percent of the U.S population. The U.S born children of the immigrants, the second genneration, represent another 37.1 million people, or 12 percent of the population. Thus together the first and second generations account for one out of 4 members of the U.S population.

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration act of 1965, which begun to be the most recent period of mass immigration to the United states. This act abolished the restrictive quota system of the 1920s and opened up legal immingrnation to all the countries in the world, helping to set the stage for the dramatic increase in immigration from the Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Carribean. At the same time, it limited the numbers of legal immigrants coming from the countries in the western hemisphere, thus establishing restrictions across the U.S southern border crosses. Although the immigration act of 1965 exemplified the progressive ideals of 1960s, the system it engendered may also hinder some immigrants and their descendants prospects for intergration.