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America has been a melting pot of cultures for many centuries, with the number of immigrants continually rising every year. Most of these immigrants come into the country with nothing at all except for the clothes on their backs and a few English words. But they also bring with them something special – their cultures and traditions from their homeland. In the Immigrant Advantage, readers can see that these specific traditions that they bring with them give them an advantage because they tend to have better mental and physical health than their native born American counterparts (5).

The Film "West Side Story" illustrates how the Puerto Ricans of New York faced discrimination and were used as scapegoats by the American people during the cold war time period to escape their anxieties. Due to the fear of communism and possible nuclear war the 1950-1960s time period was a very fragile time for the American people which produced an air of xenophobia throughout the country. The air of xenophobia is present throughout the play due of the repeated mention of stereotypes about Puerto Ricans and the constant feeling that the Puerto Ricans do not belong. The people of American often dealt with these anxieties in one of two ways, through escapism or through and through the scapegoating. This is made very clear through the comparison of West Side Story to the play The Music Man in the document “West Side Story and The Music Man: Whiteness, Immigration, and Race in the US during the late 1950s”. Like many waves of immigrants, the Puerto Ricans faced discrimination when they arrived and for some time after. This came in the form of people being discriminatory directly to them, housing discrimination and job discrimination. Therefore, the play “West Side Story” expresses the discrimination that Puerto Ricans faced due to the xenophobic nature of the time period.

Daniels, Roger. Not like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997.

Immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue that faces the US. In his film, Sin Nombre (2009), director Cary Fukunaga aims to juxtaposition the issue of immigration with the issue of gang violence in Mexico, and show the difficulties immigrants face by giving his audience an insider’s perspective into the experience of immigrating to the United States from Honduras. He does this through a variety of characters; most notably Willie and Sayra. Fukunaga did extensive research on life in the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the process of immigrating to America, in order to make his film realistic and authentic. The result is a movie that not only shows immigration in a way that evokes empathy and enforces the humanity of immigrants in the viewer’s mind, but also gives the viewer a look into the realities of being in a gang. Through the use of strong characters, powerful dialogue and vivid imagery, Fukunaga uses pathos to put a human face to the issue of immigration, logos to inform and give his audience context about the issues the film addresses, and ethos to establish his credibility and make the film believable.

Misrepresentation of Natives on screen throughout the 20th century has had an adverse effect on them. Whether it was positive or negative stereotypes, Natives felt the effect of Hollywood and began to lose their self-identity, their honour, and their pride. Reel Injun takes a look at how movies have defined an entire race and also documents the rebirth of the Native identity after decades of destructive Hollywood movies by interviewing notable Native actors, actresses, and activists. By doing so, director Neil Diamond hopes to silence Hollywood stereotypes and get Hollywood to properly represent the Native people.

In the play Zoot Suit, the author Luis Valdez deals with the central theme of injustice and uncanny law enforcement through the life of Mexican-American gangster Henry Renya. Essentially, the Hispanic 38th street men, which is led by Henry, are accused of a crime they did not commit. One can determine that they were wrongfully sentenced because of their race and their choice of clothing. Throughout the play, Luis Valdez depicts how injustice has become a part of the life for Mexican-Americans through the portrayals of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder, their attire, misconduct during the trial, and racism.

In those early portrayals, the "privileged non-Latina woman" was often "lured into the sensual exoticism of a caddish Latino philanderer," Baugh continues (259). More recently, the author suggests, filmmakers have attempted to present Latino identities as less stereotypical characters. There are characters that would not likely be revered by the greater Latino community in the United States, but nonetheless Baugh believes

In the essay “Getting Down To What Is Really Real,” John Jeremiah Sullivan discusses the reality TV show “The Real World”. In his essay, Sullivan gives us an inside experience with the main stars of the show in order to give us a glimpse of what their real lives are like. He argues, “the single most interesting thing about reality TV, is the way it has successfully appropriated reality”(Sullivan 97). Similarly, Hispanic culture has been portrayed stereotypically in TV shows and films throughout the years. Latino characters on TV mostly take roles of maids, thugs and Latin lovers who have a heavy accent and immigration problems (Nittle). Movies like Maid In Manhattan and A Day Without A Mexican have represented these stereotypes quite clearly, and that sadly reflects how people see them. However, most recently, the TV show Jane The Virgin is applying a more complex and realistic depiction of Hispanic characters by breaking these stereotypes.

The first play that we are looking at, Fences ,and Zoot Suit plays, I’ve chosen is multiculturalism. This is not the biggest part of the view in of these plays, the specific theme of the ethnic groups by El Pachuco in the Zoot Suit and the conflict of generations

On the west side of Manhattan two groups compete for turf, the Jets, a group of white juveniles, and the Sharks, a group of young Puerto Rican men. The conflicts that arise from racial and cultural differences are what lead to West Side Story’s message. The Jets do not like the Sharks because they came from a different part of the world. They don’t want them in their neighborhood because they are worried that they will change things, take their jobs, and make the neighborhood dirty. People have always and still have this fear for immigrants because they can’t accept change. When Tony and Maria fall in love, it makes the two gangs’ rivalry even more complicated.

1. One example is a woman from Europe. Fresh from Eastern Europe, "Anna" arrived in the United States in response to an ad for a mail-order bride. But soon after accepting a proposal of marriage, things fell apart. Her so-called fiancé — a U.S. citizen involved in a crime ring —

The media is the biggest tool of circuit of culture, and yet there are very few representations of minorities in media. Fresh Off the Boat is a cultural artifact for Asian Americans. “Artifacts are charged with meaning, but many of those meanings speak for our identification with groups” (Brummett p.55). The show represents what the group is like as a whole. This is problematic as the show represents Asian Americans as chinkified, “ching-chong” caricatures. The methods used for methodological perspective are the nodal points of the Circuit of Culture. The Circuit of Culture is representation, regulation, identity, consumption, and production. Out of these five, identity relates to the show the most. The show represents Asian Americans and reminds or shows the audience the experience of immigrants. Many Asian Americans tune into Fresh Off the Boat because it is one of the few times Asian Americans are able to identify themselves and their families with the characters as they experience similar experiences. It reminds Asian Americans the struggles and difficulties of balancing two different worlds and experiencing extreme prejudice. The writer for “Saucy Dishes”, Gish Jen writes, “And all for the distancing of the

Women and men from around the world are being linked together and creating connections even if they have never personally met before. There are approximately between 4,000 and 6,000 marriages between men form the United States and foreign women each year (Frater). Of all these marriages, statistics show that they have been successful due to 80 percent of them that have lasted over the years (Frater). Ultimately, not all mail order brides marry for reasons that associate

Gangs have been occupied New York City for hundreds of years. In the 1950s, the city saw a rise of Latino immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and notably Puerto Rico as well as a rise in gang violence. Leonard Bernstein’s musical West Side Story uses the real-world subject of gang warfare in New York City to depict a modern-day adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by playing into the ethnic divide between the two gangs, but in doing so it simultaneously acts as a medium through which the uninformed public can learn about the culture of the gangs from this time.

Despite the recession formally ended in June 2009, the American economy had been growing at a rate of 2%, about one percentage point below its long-term average. The author say that we need lots of capable people to solve this problem and immigration is the quick way to get such people and a market-based immigration system can encourage immigration.