Mixed-American Immigration Movement

Historian Daryl Joji Maeda called the The Asian American movement “a multiethnic alliance comprising of all ethnicities by drawing on the discourses and ideologies of the Black Power and anti-war movements in the United States as well as decolonization movements around the globe.” By the 1960s, a new generation, less attached to the ethnic differences that plagued Asian immigrant groups, began to grow and work together. The black and white binary race treatment in the US alienated Asian-Americans as an other, causing some to begin their own rally for Asian-American civil rights.

One of the main reasons Europeans sought to explore the world was to spread Christianity. As far as they knew, the New World had never heard of Christianity, and the Spanish Cardinal Trinlini said that this made them “heathens [who] live a barbarous life”. His motivation for exploring these new lands was to save the natives from their ignorance

Christianity was brought over from Europe with the discovery of the New World in the 1800s. The missionaries established missions and religious schools within the Native community. Many of the Native people took up the Christian religion while keeping their Native practices.

The modernization of China has played a key role in the changes of popular culture in China. With modernization, the people of China were introduced to different forms and styles of music which the Chinese studied and incorporated into their own

The Movement from Mexico to the USA was a great change for a child. There were many new things there that would make a nine year olds mind confused, but people get over it. The recklessness inside the mind of the child didn’t let them think of a new thing as exciting.

It is expected that ultimately there will be a loss of ethnic distinctiveness for immigrants in the U.S., meaning the lack of attachment to the country of origin. (Golash-Boza, 2006) It is argued that all ethnic distinctiveness will no longer exist by the seventh or eighth generations. Before exploring the influence of foreign born vs. U.S. born parents on their children’s cultural assimilation; the different theories of assimilation will be explored. The idea of Assimilation came about in the early 20th century. (Golash-Boza, 2006) Assimilation is surrounded by two theories, the first that all immigrants will assimilate sooner or later and that the generational status of the individual is one of the main factors in determining the

Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing

In the late 1840s and 50s, about 25 thousand Chinese people came to seek fortune in the California Gold Rush. From 1880 to 1910, the new immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe. They were not Protestant. Instead, most were Roman Catholic, Orthodox, or Jewish. The Jews left Russia to escape persecution.

In many Latin American countries, the original native inhabitants were invaded by Europeans looking for land to discover and conquer and riches to be brought back with them. In many cases, Spanish Conquistadors came in conquered native peoples, via superior weapons, or illnesses, and then proceeded to enforce their ways on life on them. Christianity in Latin America, much like Africa, would take root and spread throughout various countries. Although originally brought by force, Christianity in these two countries has flourished over the years, and in a way, has taken on an identity of its own apart from its past. As for Asia, Christianity was spread there earlier. As mentioned earlier, disciples and apostles of Jesus did arrive to some Asian countries and successfully established churches and converted some. However, as time went one, other religions in Asian countries such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and others took precedence. In many cases, Christianity was illegal. This came about mainly during the time of Communism in China and other places, but even in countries like Japan Christianity was forbidden by the emperor. While Christianity has had a turbulent time in Asia, and still does to this day, there are several missionaries reaching out to Asian countries, specifically China. While Christianity is illegal there and it is hard to tell just how many Chinese are Christian, there has been an increase in the efforts to spread Christianity throughout

Most Europeans traveling to America were Christians. Christians did many things to convince Native Americans to convert to their religion. They tried and forced some Native Americans to convert to Christianity. Some of the Europeans said that you would go to hell if you did not become a Christian.

Economics, religion, and politics shaped European and Native American contact in a positive way for the Europeans, and a negative way for the Native Americans. The Europeans brought materials such as horses and wheat, which the Native Americans used and circulated into their economy. The Europeans got grains and maize in return. Diseases brought by the Europeans killed up to 90% of Native Americans, which brought trade and other economic activities down. Before the Native Americans met with the Europeans they only believed in animism and spirits as their religion, after the Europeans came, they tried to convert the Native Americans by force. Many Christian leaders such as Pope Paul III rejected the harsh treatment of Native Americans, but still supported the conversion of them en masse. Christianity in the Americas developed into a mix of Christianity and animism, in Europe people solely believed in Jesus as their lord.

The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras set the precedence for expectations of religion and schooling in the United States. The Colonial Era is known as the era of religious freedom. During this time, immigrants traveled to the colonies from Europe to avoid religious persecution (Basile McDaniel, 2017). Immigrants consisted of voluntary and involuntary settlers who were looking forward to endless possibilities. The Revolutionary War caused a decline in immigration, but it increased again the war ended. This era offered the possibility of new lives, but the primary language that was used in schools was English, and there was no help for English Language Learners (Basile McDaniel, 2017).

During the mass immigration era of America, an abundant number of people traveled to the urban industrial society of the United States in aspiration to seek job opportunities and better lives than the ones they left behind. These groups included the Poles, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans, Japanese, East European Jews, and the African- Americans. However, one of these groups mentioned was distinctly different from the rest: the African-Americans. They were already American citizens, who migrated to the northern American cities to free themselves from segregation, oppression, and harsh conditions they experienced in the South and obtain equal rights and opportunities. Although the African-Americans'

Lisa Lowe, a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University, boasts many accreditations to her name. She holds her PhD. in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and her B.A. in History from world-renowned Stanford University. In 1996, Duke University Press published her book Immigration Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. In Immigrant Acts, Lowe discusses the contradictions in society where Asian Americans have been included in the workplace and markets of the U.S., but are often distanced from the ground of the national culture via exclusion laws and bars from citizenship.

Many immigrants from all over Asia came to America during this time bringing their ancient religions