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Immigrat° & diversity (American myths (the American dream, Rags to…

- - - - the European wasp (white Anglo Saxon protestants)
        
        Germany, England, European country
    - - Irish people starving, potato famine :potato:
        
        catholic so discriminated
    - - quotas max of 3% of the community living in the US and after 2%
        
        reduce nb of immigrants from non-Anglo-Saxon countries
  - - - facilitate family reunificat°
      - Enable + immigrants from countries: Asia, Aq, Latin-America
- - - - unemployment
      - labour shortage
  - - - allows undocumented living there since childhood to stay & work if they have no criminal record
  - - - family separat°
        
        avoid people from giving birth in the US
        
        to prevent people from "taking advantage" of the sytM
    - - horrible detent° condit°
        
        chidren & babies not prevented of basic necessities
        
        say to much the US cannot manage this amount
        
        critics : want to scare people
        
        melting pot vs salad bowl
- - - - 20% of world immigrants
      - 44 M'/13% people in the US born in another country
      - 77% immigrants documented
        
        10 M' undocumented
      - 25% from Mexico, a lot from China
    - - 14th amendment
      - having an American relative (one parent)
      - must have lived 5 years, or 3 married
        
        with a green card
        
        test: culture, values, history, language, no criminal record
- - - - smallest and poorest,die youngest, hit by suicide, alcohol
        
        XIXes
        
        killed, slaughtered
        
        assimilated by force
        
        abandon language & tradit°
        
        had to become christian
        
        cut their hair
      - 1/3 in reservat°
        
        depend on the US gvt for income
        
        corrupt°
        
        just a small % of the money dedicated reaches the people
      - Poverty rate = 25 % (vs US average = 11%)
      - 2% of the pop° : 6.6M’ of them
  - - - 60 M’ Hispanic Americans (especially from Mexico, Portho Rico)
        
        very diverse diff origins, cultures, situat°
    - - causes
        
        racism
        
        Tend to have low paid jobs
        
        lower educat°
        
        immigrants : language barer
  - - - 60% of them were born in another country : recent immigrat°
      - 5.6% of the US pop
    - - better well being than the others minorities
      - below US average
      - but less paid than white people for the same job or degree