The Attitudes Of Minority And Immigration

Immigration has always been an issue in the United States, which is often portrayed as harmful and as major threat to American culture. As a result, various anti immigration policies have been aimed against immigrants in order to prevent and preserve the miscegenation of American culture, such as English only policies. Among the largest minority groups in the U.S, are Latinos who currently compose of 15% of the U.S population (Delgado and Stefancic 3). Unfortunately, Latinos have been accused of taking American benefits, jobs, and have wrongfully been depicted as a result of not assimilating to American culture. Latinos are often accused of resisting assimilation, but what has failed to be acknowledged is that there are obstacles set in

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

Chinese Americans have arrived to the United States through three waves of immigration. The journey of immigrating to the United States consisted of many obstacles and hardships. Chinese Americans have been in this country for centuries, and still remain one of the smallest minority minorities. To this day, they are still perceived as foreigners in the eyes of other Americans, and have been victimized for their successes. To gain a deeper understanding of Chinese immigration, we must look at the Chinese American experience of immigrant jobs, exclusion and discrimination, and the model minority stereotype.

Everyone in life wants a better life for themselves and their next generations. Many people in different countries are migrating to The United States for one or two main goals. Those two goals are a better opportunity for employment and education. Which in turn, accomplishing either one of these goals will provide a higher quality of life and a sense of importance for themselves and their family. However, Americans view the immigrants differently from what they are. Some Americans view the immigrants with different stereotypes such as being lazy system abusers, dangerous criminals, and job thieves, just to name a few. However, these stereotypes are not true and does not represent the majority of immigrant. In actuality, immigrants are very disciplined, hard workers whom are also highly motivated opportunity chasers, where in these ways they should and need to be viewed by Americans.

Though Asians make up the largest portion of the world’s population, Asian-Americans are one of the least represented minority groups within the United States. Out of an estimated 318 million people living in the U.S., Asians account for 5.2%, or approximately 17 million people. Compared to Hispanics at 54 million and African-Americans at 42 million, Asians and/or Asian-Americans are vastly outnumbered by the two other major minority groups and even more so by the majority, European-Americans. Even though Asians are typically considered the “model minority”, they are faced with the same issues that plague many other minority groups within the U.S. today to include stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and ethnocentrism. There has been a history of discriminatory national policies directed at the immigration of Asians to the U.S. and in times of duress, the labeling and targeted institutional discrimination of specific ethnicities of Asian-Americans as traitors based solely on country of origin and not on the deeds and actions of said U.S. citizens (Japanese internment camps of World War II).

Not everyone is born free and equal, but everyone is made equal. Immigration across the United States has created many different perspectives and opinions over the movement. Social and political departments have created a discussion and issue for this subject. The most common or popular immigrants in the United States are Hispanics, but there is a vast migration of Asians as well. Stereotypes are created in order to censor the positive actions of each other and have created a platform that censors Asian immigrants in the immigration movement. These two cultures are created blinded influences and impacts in the United States. Anti-Immigration is rhetoric and bias

    Many immigrant and minority narratives concentrate their efforts on the positive side of the American dream. These particular stories narrate a person's struggle and rise through the ranks of the Am6rican hierarchy focusing on the opportunities that seem to abound in this country. While these stories are well and good. they do seem to soft peddle the flip side of this country's attitude toward the immigrant and minority. America is a land of milk and honey and opportunity, but unfortunately most new officiates or unwilling participants in the American culture face an American nightmare that leaves its effects on the individuals, families and cultures

When Mae Ngai stated that Asian and Latino persons are still treated as racial outsiders within the United States, she is referring to the America’s treatment of these minority groups throughout history and today. For instance, the labor of both groups of immigrants have continually exploited as they sought the rumored opportunity of our “nation of immigrants.” Historical examples would include the Asian population that played a key role in the Central Pacific Railroad and the Latino population that continues to be utilized by farmers to supplement an American lack of interest resulting in a labor shortage in the Farm labor industry (Kanstroom, p. 213). Secondly, both minority groups have had citizens imprisoned without due process during both the Japanese Internment Camps of World War II and the Mexican Repatriation of the Depression Era (Kanstroom, p.213-219).

Growing up, I perceived myself as a minority in a predominantly Hispanic and to a lesser extent Asian area based solely on the restaurants in the area and how often I would see Spanish and an East or Southeast Asian script on the sign for a store. The latter is seen in the fact 55.9% of the population spoke Spanish or Spanish Creole and 87% of this group spoke English “less than well,” indicating it may be at least a second language for them. Asian and Pacific Island language speakers makeup 5.2% of the population, however, a greater degree of assimilation was seen in this group with only 64.4% of this group indicating they spoke English “less than well.” Another factor in this is that over 60 percent of the population (61.3%) is foreign born with the vast majority (90.8%) speaking Spanish or Spanish Creole at home. A quarter mile from my house there was an entire plaza of Southeast Asian stores and restaurants and a half mile away was another, larger plaza with mostly Mexican and other Central American businesses and spaces. In spite of this economic activity, the two thirds of residents rented rather than owned their homes and nearly 80% of the total population lived in these units. Additionally, 82.1% of the Spanish speaking population over the age of 25 have earned less than a highschool diploma. Such data are emblematic of the relationship between being a person of color in this country and the barriers to

This project was very interesting, and what I noticed, there is people from the same ethnicity who have different opinions about what an American is. When I was interviewed my coworker who is a Mexican American (person 2), a friend who is a Mexican American as well was there hearing the interview. I asked her what is her ethnicity and if she consider herself an American. She told me that she is a Mexican American because she was born here and her parents are from Mexico. Same thing with her ex-husband. However, she does not consider her son a Mexican American because both of his parents are born here. My coworker asked her, “Why did you say that if he is your parents’ grandson? He has Mexican blood”. And she said, “Because I am the first generation

Her statement conclude that most of the act of prejudice towards homosexual has a lot more to do with the social control that surround the environment of the individual. This further proves how United States' History changed not only the culture of the country but also how other people view a group of their own countrymen. I believe that this mindset that has been developed over the years, makes people feel that they have the right to judge and determine who deserves to be treated as citizens of the United States.

This essay examines the social issue of Australians holding negative attitudes towards asylum seekers. Asylum seekers are those people claim to be refugees, but their claim has not yet been finalised or evaluated, it is approximated that there are one million people seeking asylum every year (UNHCR, 2016). There is a significant amount of research indicating that many Australians hold a negative attitude against asylum seekers, Pedersen, Atwell, & Heveli, (2005) and Schweitzer, Perkoulidis, Krome, Ludlow & Ryan, (2005) found that more than 60% of participants in their studies expressed negative attitudes towards asylum seekers. In her study Klocker (2004) found extreme negativity against asylum with 70% of participants viewing asylum seekers

Race is an attribute of minority that has also be used as a discriminatory classification that African Americans lives are influenced by. Race is an attribute that established hierarchy based on physical features. Flanagan explains that over the course of immigration the majority used race as a way separate themselves from other groups. He states, “Often in the history of immigration and intergroup relations in the United States, the majority has distinguished itself from an emerging minority by employing the idea that the newcomers were from a separate race” (Flannagan, 95). This type of distinction is still around today and the mistreatment that comes with the separation of races is known as the racial prejudices that African Americans face

White children that have little to no contact with ethnic groups become more prejudice as they get older compared to white children who do interact with ethnic groups become less racist over time. However, with black children they become more prejudices against white people as they get older no matter if they spend time with them or not. Minority-group children have a negative attitude towards the intergroup because they are seen and treated differently. Members of minority-group have experienced some type of discrimination at some point causing them to have negative view of the intergroup.

In France, those born there are content with their citizenship. Things for the 1st generation are hard due to the influences that racism and prejudice against immigrants, and how that factors into the mentality that immigrants have in new nations. In many ways, the resident population of countries are hostile to newcomers. Because of this, as immigrants they tend to join together with others from the same background because they feel safer and more comfortable. Think about it this way. Say you Are new to France and you only speak broken tongue (your language) and your mannerisms and culture are radically different from the culture there. Every attempt to go out into the mainstream world is a difficult endeavour because you are different, and