Lillian B Rubin Is This A White Country Summary

Superiority complex, which by definition is ‘an attitude of superiority that conceals actual feelings of inferiority and failure’, are one of the three traits from the Triple Package. In the article, the writers tend to use many examples that are based around ethnicity, religion, and national-origins to back up their claims. Many immigrants, especially the Chinese and Indians, have traveled to America to make a new life and to achieve the American Dream. According to a study done in 2013 by the Russell Sage Foundation, a majority of the immigrant families were poor and uneducated. But

Millions of immigrants over the previous centuries have shaped the United States of America into what it is today. America is known as a “melting pot”, a multicultural country that welcomes and is home to an array of every ethnic and cultural background imaginable. We are a place of opportunity, offering homes and jobs and new economic gains to anyone who should want it. However, America was not always such a “come one, come all” kind of country. The large numbers of immigrants that came during the nineteenth century angered many of the American natives and lead to them to blame the lack of jobs and low wages on the immigrants, especially the Asian communities. This resentment lead to the discrimination and legal exclusion of immigrants,

Joseph Healey’s “From Immigrants to White Ethnics” is a generalized comparison between the varying groups of individuals that accompanied the colossal waves of immigration to the United States from Europe in the nineteenth century. Immigration to this country resulted from a number of reason such as religious persecution, individuals seeking to find employment after industrialization in their home countries limited their livelihood, and political oppositions to name a few. On arrival the immigrants knew immediately they were of the subordinate group and faced “discrimination and prejudice” (Healey, 2012, p. 54), although some more so than others. Among the first immigrants to arrive in the United States were Northern and Western European citizens. Unlike the immigrants from Ireland and Southern and Eastern Europe that chose the United States for their new homeland these individuals were probably the most accepted by the majority, even if considered just nominally superior to the others. Included in this group were the “English, Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, Welsh, French, Dutch and Danes” (Healey, 2012, p. 56). This acceptance was due in part to the similarities that the dominate group held as ideals such as their religion, along with cultural values and characteristics. If the Northern and Western Europeans found acceptance difficult, individuals from Ireland and the Europeans from the south and east had an even more traumatic experience. Whereas the more accepted group had

Immigrating to America is a process in which many people all across the world entrust as their one way ticket to a better life. Whether they do so legally or illegally, coming to the United States ensures better opportunities, economically, politically, and so on, to people who would have otherwise been worse off in their countries of origin. Even so, the common understanding of being “better off” can be considered a misconstrued concept when it comes to living in the states. Many families that choose to immigrate to the U.S. fail to realize the cultural hardships that newcomers tend to face once on American soil. Anything from racial discrimination or bias at work, in neighborhoods, at school, etc., can all be challenges that people encounter when making a move to the U.S. Such challenges are described by Richard Rodriquez in his autobiography Hunger of Memory. In this passage, he explains how cultural differences between Mexican and American ways of life have shaped him into the person that he is today. He also chooses to highlights the problems that he faces growing up in a predominately white neighborhood, while attending a predominantly white institution. Much of his writing consists of the cultural differences and pressures he feels to assimilate to Western culture and how this process, in turn, changes him into the person that some may find to be unethical, but nonetheless, someone he is proud of.

In the United States, the cliché of a nation of immigrants is often invoked. Indeed, very few Americans can trace their ancestry to what is now the United States, and the origins of its immigrants have changed many times in American history. Despite the identity of an immigrant nation, changes in the origins of immigrants have often been met with resistance. What began with white, western European settlers fleeing religious persecution morphed into a multicultural nation as immigrants from countries across the globe came to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Like the colonial immigrants before them, these new immigrants sailed to the Americas to gain freedom, flee poverty and

People are always uneasy with what they don’t know, and immigrants carry with them different cultures, languages, and the unknown. During the late 1900s and early 2000s, America was dealing with a large influx of immigrants. In America from 1880 to 1925, immigrants were viewed through a lens of racial prejudice and seen as either sources of work or of crime.

The United States of America has the largest foreign-born population in the world. With nearly thirteen percent of the total population being foreign-born, one may find it hard to imagine an immigrant-free country (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Immigration has been an integral part of the United States’ overall success and the country’s economy since it was established and without it, would have never been founded at all. Although there are some negative issues associated with immigration and many native-born Americans believe to be more of a problem than a solution, overall it actually has a positive effect. Immigrants in America, among other things, fill jobs where native-born Americans may not want to work or cannot work, they contribute

In most cases, I focused on poor schooling, poor parenting, and students’ lack of interest on the failure of minority education. After reading this article, I can safely say that I do agree with Ogbu’s perspective on why education seems to fail within minority groups. After all, motivation is what keeps individuals wanting to do better. From personal experience, off of stories my parents have told me themselves, the strive to be successful in America is based on wanting to be successful instead of hoping that it one day lands directly in front you. I see eye to eye with Ogbu since the history of immigrants plays a tremendous role in their achievement in

On July 10, 2012, a passage titled When Italian Immigrants Were “The Other” was published. In this passage Ed Falco said, “America has a proud tradition as an immigrant nation, but it also has a long history of marginalizing those it marks as ‘other.’ America 's other heritage includes suspicion, hostility, abuse, and even death, leveled against ethnic groups as they arrived one after another in waves over the past 2 ½ centuries.” Falco emphasizes that America is proud of being an accepting nation to the immigrants, but they are often marginalized, or pushed out of society. Many true Americans attribute these immigrants with suspicion, hostility, abuse, and even death, as they continue to arrive in America. This quote was said by someone

Racism is built on the ‘othering’ of people from different races, cultural backgrounds, or traditions in order to oppress and maintain the structures which support a ‘dominant’ race. By othering immigrants and portraying them as different and less-than citizens who were born in America, the ideology that Americans are superior to other nationalities prevails. By analyzing the institutions that perpetuate anti-immigration, racist, and other discriminatory

When most people think about immigration to the United States, they think of the U.S. as being the “land of opportunity,” where they will be able to make all of their dreams come true. For some people, immigration made their lives richer and more fulfilled. This however, was not always the case. A place that is supposed to be a “Golden Land” (Marcus 116) did not always welcome people with open arms. Even after people became legal citizens of the United States, often times the natural born Americans did not treat the immigrants as equals but rather as outsiders who were beneath them in some way. In some situations, people’s lives were made worse by coming to the “land of opportunity.” Often times people were living no better than they

In the article, “Asian American and Stereotypes”, Margaret Yee believes, “The joke that Mr. Kristof cites – that “an A- is an ‘Asian F” – is actually a source of pain for many Asian students, who feel a relentless pressure to live up to the model minority image” (Yee). Yee is trying to get her readers to understand that stereotypes hurt Asians Americans mentally and physically, and that is the reason they self-destruct over time leaving them depressed and exhausted. Comparing in the article, “The Real Secret to Asian American Success was Not Education” by Jeff Guo, “Asians actually earn five percent less compared with whites who also have advanced degrees – while blacks and Hispanics earn twenty percent less. Although many believe that hard work you will help individuals earn more money, Guo argues how ones income is determined by race, not their work ethic. Why do whites have white privileges yet other races cannot?

Along with its economic classes, American is known for its freedom, its liberty, and the melting pot of ethnicity. This ethnic diversity comes form the immigrant population in the country. However this perfect country is a major falsehood. These untrue ideals of harmony, freedom, success, and equality are deceptive and do not show the struggles that immigrants face when coming to this class dominated country. The immigrants of today do not come from just Europe, but overwhelmingly from Asia and Latin America. “They are driving a demographic shift so rapid that within the lifetimes of today 's teenagers, no one ethnic group – including whites of European descent – will comprise a majority of the nation 's population’ (Colombo, Cullen, Lisle). These immigrants challenge the social myth that everyone has an equal chance in life. They

Another example of a victim of the white controlled society was Deborah. Deborah was brutally raped by a gang of white men and was barren for the rest of her life as a result. The public shame and humiliation that followed also drove her into becoming an outcast in the community. Instead of being sympathized for and cared for, she was looked down upon as dirty and an easy sexual target, “When men looked at Deborah they saw no further than her unlovely and violated body,” (Baldwin 68).This is more of an issue of race than sex because a white woman who was raped would never have faced the shame that Deborah did. As Estelle Freedman of the Washington Post explained, “After emancipation, the presumption that African American women had no say over

Supporters of affirmative action argue that discrimination and racism have held down minorities in the U.S., and that affirmative action is needed to correct it. In response, critics ask: "If blacks and Mexicans are being held down by discrimination, then why do Asians come to this country and do so well for themselves?" According to this myth, Asians immigrate to America with little or nothing, often as boat people fleeing communism, and through hard study and work become even more successful than European-Americans. Their success would suggest that the U.S. does not really discriminate against minorities.