Irish need apply. This class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Welcome to the latest chapter of the irishamerican experience. We will be talking about nativism, the antiimmigrant movement that explodes in the 19th century, pretty much impacting all immigrants, but especially the irish. They are the biggest group. They are the most identifiable group. They are in the biggest cities. They stand out and generate an enormous opposition. Before we get into that, lets back up a little bit. We are not just going to be simply talking about the irish today, because the nativist response the irish generates actually existed before the irish got here. You can find early versions of it in the early 18th century and you also find echoes of it since that time. It speaks to the larger american experience. It is a kind of phenomenon that we pride ourselves of being a nation of immigrants, but we are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation that is always questioning that tradition. Lets start w
All immigrants, but really focusing on the irish, the biggest and most identifiable group. They are also in the crowded cities and so forth, so they stand out and generate an enormous opposition. Lets we get into that, back up a little bit. Because we are net not just talking about the irish today, because the nativist response to the irish generates actually existed before the irish got here. You can find early versions of it in the 18th century, and you also find a goes of it since that time. So this question about antiimmigrant sentiment speaks to the larger american experience. It is a kind of phenomenon that we pride ourselves as being a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation that is always questioning that tradition. Lets start now, looking at things in 2014 very what do americans think of the migration . If you go to ellis island, you will see this image, an american flag, very large. About 20 feet long, 10 feet high. If you stand on one end, it has a hologram effect. On
How would world war ii had ended . Not well. The cold war . Not well. What would my life had been like . That would not have been a place like america for my parents to go to. I told the story many times because to me it reminds me every single day of how unique this nation is. Throughout all of history, almost everyone who has lived has lived in a society that told you, you can only go as far as your parents went before you. Whatever they did, that is what is left. Here, that has not been the case. My parents understood. My father lost his mother when he was nineyearold, and he worked for the next 70 years of his life. My mother was one of seven girls raised in cuba in a poor family, with the disabled father. They had dreams when they were young, but they could not do them, they found themselves in a society that told them that they could not do those things. Imagine what that must have felt like. A society that tells you no matter how much you try, there are things you cannot do beca
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