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Monday, February 22, 2010
Immigrating to the US
We brainstormed this week about problems immigrants face. What do you suppose were the 3 most difficult things immigrants to this country had to face? You can share about your own family’s immigrant story, if you know it.
My Granny, my mother's mother, sailed over to America from scotland where she lived for 32 years. She spent most of her life there and is 100 percent scottish; she lookes it, she acts it, and she speekes scottish. She first had an apartment in Morristown that she shared with her husband and sister,(later her other brothers and sisters moved to America.). My grandfather moved to America before my Granny so he could make money because working in the coal mines and being a football player in scotland didn't pay much. She told me, her first experience in America was horrible. A taxi drove her to her new apartment, she had barley seen any America, the streets painted in gold, and the land of milk and honey flowing into gutters. So the taxi driver dumped her off at her new home. He made her pay so much money for the ride, he stiffed her. From then on she wasn't impressed with America and actually wanted to go back home. People took advatage of her and other foriegners. She was settled in America and had a job as a waitress. One day a couple at a table didnt tip her so she ran after them in the parking lot to get her rightful pay. Foriegners were taken advantage of alot as you can see like my granny. Another problem that immigrants might face is discrimination of any type. My mother told me that back then it was weird to have parents who werent form America, and she was embarrassed because none of her friends could understand her parents, my Granny and Grandfather, when they spoke. But now, its cool if your parents are fom another country. So just by being different and not beimng American, people didnt like you for that. Some people didnt like my mom whe she was younger because her parents werent born in America. A third problem immigrants might face when moving to america is adapting to the new culture their in and its language and so on. Some of my friends that meet my Granny can't undertand her sometimes when she has a converation with them. Its kind of funny, even though she has been in America for a long time now, she hasnt lost her accent or her traditions. But adapting can be hard when it seems your in a different world. When i go to my Granny's house of feel like i am in another world because she is close with her culture, she cooks scottish dishes, wears scottish clothes, and watches BBC and old english tv show. Its comicial. So jobs and taking advantage of immigrants, adapting to their new life style, and being accepted as an american is all problems for immigrants when they come to america.
The three most difficult things that I think immigrants had to face when coming from another country into a new one is the change of life. The immigrants life style change because they were probably not living the same way as they did back in the country that they came from. The culture of that they had come from and been raised in will change a lot. The way that they live their life my not be the same as another person or family and they may be looked down upon, because they are not the same as everyone else. Another difficulty that an immigrant has to over come is the language. When the immigrants come over from their homeland they speak their native language. When they come into a new country they have to learn a new language to be able to communicate with everybody else. Unless their is a small community of their culture, race, or religion, that would deffinitly be very lucky for them. One more difficulty that they would be faced with would be the money. Most people who came over would not have a lot of money because they probably spent all of their money on getting themselves and their families across to the new country. They would not have enough money to be able to afford a good house to live in.
When immigrants come to the United States, they might have many hardships. Back it the early twentieth century, around the time the book takes place, there were many more hardships that immigrants could and did go through. One of the most major hardships that immigrants had to go through in the early 1900s was discrimination. The United States was not a very accepting country back then until decades later. We, the citizens of the United States, used to treat immigrants as if they had insignificant intelligence compared to us. The immigrants looked and acted different, so we automatically did not want them in our country. We didn't bother to get to know them, and that still happens today. The only reason immigrants survived that was by creating neighborhoods with people of the same cultural background or people who used to know each other. And there, they talked in their language, they had their own rules, somewhat, and they had signs in their language. Another major hardship back then was finding a job. Most business owners and other employers would not trust the immigrants with the jobs because of the stereotypes of their culture, like the Italians and the Mafia. People also believed they would steal from them. The last major hardship they had to go through, in my opinion, was learning the United States' language - English. This refers back to discrimination, because we couldn't understand them, we just gave up on them. So, it was either learn the language or fail in the New World. There were many other things that the immigrants had to go through, but these are just the three hardships that I believe have the most significance.
I can only imagine how many difficulties immigrants coming to the United States had to face. Although their lives after moving to the United States were most likely filled with various hardships, I think that the three most difficult things they had to deal with would probably be discrimination, being unfamiliar with the country, and the language barrier. First, in this time period, people would discriminate against others who were different. I imagine that this would have made even finding a job hard, if the owner was a discriminator themselves. Otherwise, the discrimination was probably just very demeaning and discouraging to people looking for a better life. Also, being incapable to speak English would have been very difficult every day. If very few others spoke their language, they would have been easily confused. Finally, being unfamiliar with the country must have been hard. Having to adapt to everyday life in a way different than what you knew would have been difficult to get used to. In conclusion, having to adapt, discrimination, and unfamiliar language are just three of many hardships immigrants must have faced after coming to America.
Immigrating to America is a very risky thing to do. A very popular reason to come to our country is to seek fortune and wealth. Immagrants often come to the country due to bad times in their homeland. This could be anything from unsucsessful business, oppressive government, or simply lack of money. There are some major problems that affect the immigrants when they get here. One problem is the lingual difference. These people have trouble communicating with the native Americans. Another problem that they face is finding their family. People in the same family often immigrate to this country one at a time, when they can get the oppritunity. When they get here, it may take weeks even months to become reunited with their family members. The final problem that I will discuss is that of mistreatment. Foriegners often have to deal with racism and predjudice when they reach America. They will most likely move to an area in which a great deal of fellow countrymen live. There can be bad relationships between different ethnicities also. When someone immigrates to this country, they can benifit in terms of business and life quality, although there are also a lot of setbacks to face.
There are many pros and cons of immigrating to the US. A good thing about coming to the united states is, someone might find a good work oppurtunity and provide a better life for them and their famliy. Although the end result of immigration is mostly for the better, the process can be hard and complicated trying to get in. The three most difficult things immigrants had to face were discrimination, language, and getting used to the new country. Discrimination could be a hard thing for many foreigners. When they are moving into the country, people will often steriotype them of their differences. Some people moving into the US might not know English too well. That could be difficult because they could be so lost and have no idea what anyone is saying. People like that tend to move to neighborhoods with people from the same place so they could get used to the US speaking their own language. Also, getting used to the new country could be a pretty hard part. Adapting to cultural differences and people that are nothing like the country they came from. Even though immigration is complicated and can be risky, most of the time people end up living better lives in the US with a little adapting and getting used to.
The three most difficult problems that immigrants to this country have to face are language, cultural race, and economic issues. When immigrants travel to the u.s. they sometimes have trouble learning the language because they are used to speaking their own language. When this happens other people can’t understand them or have trouble understanding them so they seclude them from the majority of people because they have difficulty learning English. When immigrants come to this country they are sometimes secluded from the majority of people based on their cultural background. When different types of immigrants travel to the U.S. they are sometimes excluded from the typical neighborhood because of their cultural background. Instead they move into a neighborhood that the people all come from the same country. When they create these types of neighborhoods they create their own laws, customs, and jobs that applies for them. Sometimes when a larger neighborhood of people has a new group of people move into their territory conflict occurs and social boundaries occur between the two types of people. Ex.) during the early 1900’s large groups of immigrant traveled to this country to live in a more free country. They would sometimes all settle into a town to speak their own language and participate in their own customs, etc. Several immigrant s traveled to certain neighborhoods with their own cultural background because they felt that if they moved into a predominantly American town and they were Spanish, French or Italian they would become the person who would stand out and the townspeople would segregate them, so they move into neighborhoods that were similar to their cultural background. The third difficult issue that immigrants who moved into this country have to face would be economic issues. For example, even if a person was told of the riches and greatness of the American country if they traveled there they might have issues trying to find well-paying jobs. Sometimes when immigrants are in search for jobs all they can find are low-paying jobs because they have difficulty fitting in the country or speaking the language they become unable to run a business or store so they become the low-class workers who help run the store, such as broom sweepers, factory workers, or repairmen and work to serve the upper people in the society. These are the three most difficult things immigrants face when coming to this country.
There were many difficult things that immigrants had to face when they came to America. Although immigrants came to America because there was better opportunities, they also faced racial discrimination, religious intolerance, and the inability to speak english. Those were the three most difficult things the immigrants had to face when they came to America. Because of both racial and religious discrimination, it was hard for the immigrants to get jons or buy houses. There was racial discrimination because Americans felt that the immigrants were taking job opportunities away from them. Also, the inability to speak english was a disadvantage to the immigrants because if you couldn't speak english there was little chance of getting a job or house or information.
My moms grandmother came to the U.S. some time ago, and paid protection to the mob. They protected her family and her business, which was a resteraunt. It still stands today, although it is not in the family anymore. She didnt teach her kids Italian for fear that they would not succeed if they knew it. One day someone stole money from her and she reported it missing to the mob. The next day the money mysteriously appeared. It is believed that he was whacked by the mob. Also my great uncle had connections to the mob.
I feel that the three hardest things for of a immmangrant coming to a country to better thier life are, the need to fit in(laanguage, looks, poeple thst you hang out with), economic issues, and governmental issues. I fell that it is safe to say that it is not comforable to feel left out, basically everyone wants to fit in. when am immagrant comes to the country they dont fit in or dont know how, it is a really bad feeling for an immagrant to feel left out. governmental issues can be one of the largest issues because you are new to the country and the last thing that you want is to be in prison. if an immagrant doesnt know the laws they can have serius consequences. the last thing of all is the economical issue when one comes to a country, generally they dont have enough money to live, resulting in them having to live in the slums. all of these points are the hardest for a immagrant to leave thier country in hopes of making it big and providing for thier family.
When immigrants travel to a new country there are many problems and troubles that they face. They are traveling to an alien country that they do no know any information on. There are three things that I see to be the most difficult things to face as an immigrant in a new country. One is of course the language. If you are coming from a different country, you are most likely ot going to know english. Also, you will probably not learn it in the country you used to live in. It is very hard to get many things accomplishedin your new country, if you didn't not speak the same language as the rest of the people. When you get to Ellis Island, it would be very hard to communicate to people if they spoke English and you spoke some other language. Another difficulty getting through Ellis Island. After you get off the boat from your old country inso America, you had to go through many tests just to get through. If you did not get through the tests, you would have to get back on the boat and travel all the way back to your old country.This was very bad because it split many families apart. Also, nobody wanted to leave America when there were so many opportunities. One last difficulty would be false advertising. Many people were told that there were so many jobs and industries in America. Also, they were told that they could be very wealthy very quick. This was not true. People had to work hard at their jobs and they were paid very poorly. Some people even had hard times finding jobs. then that woulkd lead to poverty. The immigrants soon found out that this was not the case and that they would have to work hard for their money.
When the immigrants would come here from another country,they faced lots of problems. My Italian ancestors had lots of problems because they didn't speak english. They also had a very hard time finding work. Not to mention the discrimination. It got even worse when the depression hit. The father and uncle of the family also died from disease, leaving the mother alone with six kids! They had to work insainly hard just to even get bread on the table. They were literaly starving! But they made it, and they overcame any problem that came to them.
I believe that the three most difficult things that immagrants had to face was 1. either to go for assimilation or against assimilation. 2. Findng a job that u would be able to do. 3. Being able to accept that you are in a different country. The reason why assimilation would be difficult because it would be a chose whether to accept being american or keep your traditions. It was difficult for people esspecially with children to choose whether to bring their children up as americans or bring them up in the way of their country. Finding a job would be difficult because if you are from a different country it would be difficult to find a job in which they either 1 speak your language or 2 that doesnt need you to speak just work. Lastly being able to accept that you are in a differnt country because here the society is different and the way Americans work at things is different from other countries.
I think one is finding a job. Finding a job for an imagrant is not easy especially if you nhave no sort of education. ANd you need a job to support a family and without one you are in trouble. Another one is finding and affordable place to live. Being an immagrant you probably get minimum wage and you need to find a place you can afford and probably big enough you can house your family. Last one is education. You need to find somesort of education if you want to pay the billsand depending on the size of the family you have to feed more kids then others and you need more money.
I suppose poverty was a large problem for immigrants during this time period. Europeans sailed oversea to America with hopes of living more wealthy and prosperous, and as somewhere to perhaps build a family. On the trip over, and upon landing, they may have already been deprived of money, or quickly spent it trying to find a place to live in America. Unemployment, I know, was a large problem for foriegners. This ties into the fact that many had barely any money. Immigrants did not want to be hired for any well-paying jobs, and much of that was because of predjudice. Ethnic prejudice in the everyday was demeaning to forieners in the day, too. Living in the Americas was not exactly the dream immigrants had in mind.
the three most diffuclut things immigrants had to face in immigrating to america was the test to pass in get in meaning u had to have green slip meaning that u have enough education in which u are abloe to get a job to support your self. number two was the money, there was acompetion for ranking in your job so you had to fight in order to maintain your job. the thrid mst important in adapting to the amercian way of living and, this was called a melting pot where the goverment would take immigrants and and turn them into americans
when immigrants come to the US. There are many hard struggles they go trough while migrating to american culture and an average american life. But three main ones are having to take the test in order to be a legal citizan, fitting in with the american people, and understanding the average american life. I agree with Becca when she said that immigrants were taken advantage of. Since they don't really know what a rip off is when they're paying for something.
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My Granny, my mother's mother, sailed over to America from scotland where she lived for 32 years. She spent most of her life there and is 100 percent scottish; she lookes it, she acts it, and she speekes scottish. She first had an apartment in Morristown that she shared with her husband and sister,(later her other brothers and sisters moved to America.). My grandfather moved to America before my Granny so he could make money because working in the coal mines and being a football player in scotland didn't pay much. She told me, her first experience in America was horrible. A taxi drove her to her new apartment, she had barley seen any America, the streets painted in gold, and the land of milk and honey flowing into gutters. So the taxi driver dumped her off at her new home. He made her pay so much money for the ride, he stiffed her. From then on she wasn't impressed with America and actually wanted to go back home. People took advatage of her and other foriegners.
She was settled in America and had a job as a waitress. One day a couple at a table didnt tip her so she ran after them in the parking lot to get her rightful pay. Foriegners were taken advantage of alot as you can see like my granny.
Another problem that immigrants might face is discrimination of any type. My mother told me that back then it was weird to have parents who werent form America, and she was embarrassed because none of her friends could understand her parents, my Granny and Grandfather, when they spoke. But now, its cool if your parents are fom another country. So just by being different and not beimng American, people didnt like you for that. Some people didnt like my mom whe she was younger because her parents werent born in America.
A third problem immigrants might face when moving to america is adapting to the new culture their in and its language and so on. Some of my friends that meet my Granny can't undertand her sometimes when she has a converation with them. Its kind of funny, even though she has been in America for a long time now, she hasnt lost her accent or her traditions. But adapting can be hard when it seems your in a different world. When i go to my Granny's house of feel like i am in another world because she is close with her culture, she cooks scottish dishes, wears scottish clothes, and watches BBC and old english tv show. Its comicial.
So jobs and taking advantage of immigrants, adapting to their new life style, and being accepted as an american is all problems for immigrants when they come to america.
The three most difficult things that I think immigrants had to face when coming from another country into a new one is the change of life. The immigrants life style change because they were probably not living the same way as they did back in the country that they came from. The culture of that they had come from and been raised in will change a lot. The way that they live their life my not be the same as another person or family and they may be looked down upon, because they are not the same as everyone else. Another difficulty that an immigrant has to over come is the language. When the immigrants come over from their homeland they speak their native language. When they come into a new country they have to learn a new language to be able to communicate with everybody else. Unless their is a small community of their culture, race, or religion, that would deffinitly be very lucky for them. One more difficulty that they would be faced with would be the money. Most people who came over would not have a lot of money because they probably spent all of their money on getting themselves and their families across to the new country. They would not have enough money to be able to afford a good house to live in.
When immigrants come to the United States, they might have many hardships. Back it the early twentieth century, around the time the book takes place, there were many more hardships that immigrants could and did go through. One of the most major hardships that immigrants had to go through in the early 1900s was discrimination. The United States was not a very accepting country back then until decades later. We, the citizens of the United States, used to treat immigrants as if they had insignificant intelligence compared to us. The immigrants looked and acted different, so we automatically did not want them in our country. We didn't bother to get to know them, and that still happens today. The only reason immigrants survived that was by creating neighborhoods with people of the same cultural background or people who used to know each other. And there, they talked in their language, they had their own rules, somewhat, and they had signs in their language. Another major hardship back then was finding a job. Most business owners and other employers would not trust the immigrants with the jobs because of the stereotypes of their culture, like the Italians and the Mafia. People also believed they would steal from them. The last major hardship they had to go through, in my opinion, was learning the United States' language - English. This refers back to discrimination, because we couldn't understand them, we just gave up on them. So, it was either learn the language or fail in the New World. There were many other things that the immigrants had to go through, but these are just the three hardships that I believe have the most significance.
I can only imagine how many difficulties immigrants coming to the United States had to face. Although their lives after moving to the United States were most likely filled with various hardships, I think that the three most difficult things they had to deal with would probably be discrimination, being unfamiliar with the country, and the language barrier. First, in this time period, people would discriminate against others who were different. I imagine that this would have made even finding a job hard, if the owner was a discriminator themselves. Otherwise, the discrimination was probably just very demeaning and discouraging to people looking for a better life. Also, being incapable to speak English would have been very difficult every day. If very few others spoke their language, they would have been easily confused. Finally, being unfamiliar with the country must have been hard. Having to adapt to everyday life in a way different than what you knew would have been difficult to get used to. In conclusion, having to adapt, discrimination, and unfamiliar language are just three of many hardships immigrants must have faced after coming to America.
Immigrating to America is a very risky thing to do. A very popular reason to come to our country is to seek fortune and wealth. Immagrants often come to the country due to bad times in their homeland. This could be anything from unsucsessful business, oppressive government, or simply lack of money. There are some major problems that affect the immigrants when they get here. One problem is the lingual difference. These people have trouble communicating with the native Americans. Another problem that they face is finding their family. People in the same family often immigrate to this country one at a time, when they can get the oppritunity. When they get here, it may take weeks even months to become reunited with their family members. The final problem that I will discuss is that of mistreatment. Foriegners often have to deal with racism and predjudice when they reach America. They will most likely move to an area in which a great deal of fellow countrymen live. There can be bad relationships between different ethnicities also. When someone immigrates to this country, they can benifit in terms of business and life quality, although there are also a lot of setbacks to face.
There are many pros and cons of immigrating to the US. A good thing about coming to the united states is, someone might find a good work oppurtunity and provide a better life for them and their famliy. Although the end result of immigration is mostly for the better, the process can be hard and complicated trying to get in. The three most difficult things immigrants had to face were discrimination, language, and getting used to the new country. Discrimination could be a hard thing for many foreigners. When they are moving into the country, people will often steriotype them of their differences. Some people moving into the US might not know English too well. That could be difficult because they could be so lost and have no idea what anyone is saying. People like that tend to move to neighborhoods with people from the same place so they could get used to the US speaking their own language. Also, getting used to the new country could be a pretty hard part. Adapting to cultural differences and people that are nothing like the country they came from. Even though immigration is complicated and can be risky, most of the time people end up living better lives in the US with a little adapting and getting used to.
The three most difficult problems that immigrants to this country have to face are language, cultural race, and economic issues. When immigrants travel to the u.s. they sometimes have trouble learning the language because they are used to speaking their own language. When this happens other people can’t understand them or have trouble understanding them so they seclude them from the majority of people because they have difficulty learning English. When immigrants come to this country they are sometimes secluded from the majority of people based on their cultural background. When different types of immigrants travel to the U.S. they are sometimes excluded from the typical neighborhood because of their cultural background. Instead they move into a neighborhood that the people all come from the same country. When they create these types of neighborhoods they create their own laws, customs, and jobs that applies for them. Sometimes when a larger neighborhood of people has a new group of people move into their territory conflict occurs and social boundaries occur between the two types of people. Ex.) during the early 1900’s large groups of immigrant traveled to this country to live in a more free country. They would sometimes all settle into a town to speak their own language and participate in their own customs, etc. Several immigrant s traveled to certain neighborhoods with their own cultural background because they felt that if they moved into a predominantly American town and they were Spanish, French or Italian they would become the person who would stand out and the townspeople would segregate them, so they move into neighborhoods that were similar to their cultural background. The third difficult issue that immigrants who moved into this country have to face would be economic issues. For example, even if a person was told of the riches and greatness of the American country if they traveled there they might have issues trying to find well-paying jobs. Sometimes when immigrants are in search for jobs all they can find are low-paying jobs because they have difficulty fitting in the country or speaking the language they become unable to run a business or store so they become the low-class workers who help run the store, such as broom sweepers, factory workers, or repairmen and work to serve the upper people in the society. These are the three most difficult things immigrants face when coming to this country.
There were many difficult things that immigrants had to face when they came to America. Although immigrants came to America because there was better opportunities, they also faced racial discrimination, religious intolerance, and the inability to speak english. Those were the three most difficult things the immigrants had to face when they came to America. Because of both racial and religious discrimination, it was hard for the immigrants to get jons or buy houses. There was racial discrimination because Americans felt that the immigrants were taking job opportunities away from them. Also, the inability to speak english was a disadvantage to the immigrants because if you couldn't speak english there was little chance of getting a job or house or information.
My moms grandmother came to the U.S. some time ago, and paid protection to the mob. They protected her family and her business, which was a resteraunt. It still stands today, although it is not in the family anymore. She didnt teach her kids Italian for fear that they would not succeed if they knew it. One day someone stole money from her and she reported it missing to the mob. The next day the money mysteriously appeared. It is believed that he was whacked by the mob. Also my great uncle had connections to the mob.
I feel that the three hardest things for of a immmangrant coming to a country to better thier life are, the need to fit in(laanguage, looks, poeple thst you hang out with), economic issues, and governmental issues. I fell that it is safe to say that it is not comforable to feel left out, basically everyone wants to fit in. when am immagrant comes to the country they dont fit in or dont know how, it is a really bad feeling for an immagrant to feel left out. governmental issues can be one of the largest issues because you are new to the country and the last thing that you want is to be in prison. if an immagrant doesnt know the laws they can have serius consequences. the last thing of all is the economical issue when one comes to a country, generally they dont have enough money to live, resulting in them having to live in the slums. all of these points are the hardest for a immagrant to leave thier country in hopes of making it big and providing for thier family.
When immigrants travel to a new country there are many problems and troubles that they face. They are traveling to an alien country that they do no know any information on. There are three things that I see to be the most difficult things to face as an immigrant in a new country. One is of course the language. If you are coming from a different country, you are most likely ot going to know english. Also, you will probably not learn it in the country you used to live in. It is very hard to get many things accomplishedin your new country, if you didn't not speak the same language as the rest of the people. When you get to Ellis Island, it would be very hard to communicate to people if they spoke English and you spoke some other language. Another difficulty getting through Ellis Island. After you get off the boat from your old country inso America, you had to go through many tests just to get through. If you did not get through the tests, you would have to get back on the boat and travel all the way back to your old country.This was very bad because it split many families apart. Also, nobody wanted to leave America when there were so many opportunities. One last difficulty would be false advertising. Many people were told that there were so many jobs and industries in America. Also, they were told that they could be very wealthy very quick. This was not true. People had to work hard at their jobs and they were paid very poorly. Some people even had hard times finding jobs. then that woulkd lead to poverty. The immigrants soon found out that this was not the case and that they would have to work hard for their money.
When the immigrants would come here from another country,they faced lots of problems. My Italian ancestors had lots of problems because they didn't speak english. They also had a very hard time finding work. Not to mention the discrimination. It got even worse when the depression hit. The father and uncle of the family also died from disease, leaving the mother alone with six kids! They had to work insainly hard just to even get bread on the table. They were literaly starving! But they made it, and they overcame any problem that came to them.
I believe that the three most difficult things that immagrants had to face was 1. either to go for assimilation or against assimilation. 2. Findng a job that u would be able to do. 3. Being able to accept that you are in a different country. The reason why assimilation would be difficult because it would be a chose whether to accept being american or keep your traditions. It was difficult for people esspecially with children to choose whether to bring their children up as americans or bring them up in the way of their country. Finding a job would be difficult because if you are from a different country it would be difficult to find a job in which they either 1 speak your language or 2 that doesnt need you to speak just work. Lastly being able to accept that you are in a differnt country because here the society is different and the way Americans work at things is different from other countries.
I think one is finding a job. Finding a job for an imagrant is not easy especially if you nhave no sort of education. ANd you need a job to support a family and without one you are in trouble. Another one is finding and affordable place to live. Being an immagrant you probably get minimum wage and you need to find a place you can afford and probably big enough you can house your family. Last one is education. You need to find somesort of education if you want to pay the billsand depending on the size of the family you have to feed more kids then others and you need more money.
I suppose poverty was a large problem for immigrants during this time period. Europeans sailed oversea to America with hopes of living more wealthy and prosperous, and as somewhere to perhaps build a family. On the trip over, and upon landing, they may have already been deprived of money, or quickly spent it trying to find a place to live in America.
Unemployment, I know, was a large problem for foriegners. This ties into the fact that many had barely any money. Immigrants did not want to be hired for any well-paying jobs, and much of that was because of predjudice. Ethnic prejudice in the everyday was demeaning to forieners in the day, too. Living in the Americas was not exactly the dream immigrants had in mind.
the three most diffuclut things immigrants had to face in immigrating to america was the test to pass in get in meaning u had to have green slip meaning that u have enough education in which u are abloe to get a job to support your self. number two was the money, there was acompetion for ranking in your job so you had to fight in order to maintain your job. the thrid mst important in adapting to the amercian way of living and, this was called a melting pot where the goverment would take immigrants and and turn them into americans
when immigrants come to the US. There are many hard struggles they go trough while migrating to american culture and an average american life. But three main ones are having to take the test in order to be a legal citizan, fitting in with the american people, and understanding the average american life. I agree with Becca when she said that immigrants were taken advantage of. Since they don't really know what a rip off is when they're paying for something.
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