Immigration: Past and Present Chapter 1 Introduction Discussions

Civics Who cares about Civics??? Question #1 What is it? Why is this class mandatory? Should it be? Why or why not?

Citizen Compact (Agreement) Question #2 What rights come with citizenship? Right to….. What do you agree to do in exchange for protection of these rights? Obey the law and rules Accept the government’s authority

Immigration Issues Question #3 What does E Pluribus Unum mean? Why is it on all of our coins?

“The only constant in society is change!” (#4) How has immigration changed? What has remained consistent about immigration?

“Nation of Immigrants” PAGE 5 What do people mean when they use the phrase above? Is this a new phrase? For each quote, write each heading then explain the description below it. Discuss each!

The Melting Pot “There she lies, the Great Melting Pot—listen! Can’t you hear the roaring and the bubbling? There gapes her mouth—the harbour where a thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of the world to pour in their human freight. Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian…black and yellow, East and West, North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross—how the great Alchemist fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite…what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem… compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward!” Israel Zangwill, 1909

The Salad Bowl “But as the groups of immigrants were transformed by influences in American society, stripped of their original characteristics, they were recreated as something new, but still as identifiable groups. …The assimilating power of American society and culture operated on immigrant groups to make them… something they had not been, but still distinct and identifiable…their transformation did not make them all into the same thing.” Nathan Glazer & D.P. Moynihan, 1963

The Cultural Mosaic “…to homogenize 200 million human beings into a single block of stone, instead of recognizing that America is a magnificent mosaic, made up many cultures…I find the whole idea of the melting pot frankly very distasteful. I do not want to be melted down into a single block of stone.” Rep. Roman Pucinski, 1970

Discussion Questions Which quote do you feel best describes the American population? Why? Explain in a paragraph at the bottom of your notebook on p. 5.

Change, change, change Question #5 How is the US population changing? Older More educated More diverse racially More service industry jobs Sunbelt Population shifts from NE to Sunbelt More blended families More non-traditional families

National Identity Question #6 What values do we share as Americans? Freedom Equality Popular Sovereignty Majority rule with minority rights Economic Opportunity Individual Initiative Others? How has immigration impacted these values?

Cartoon Analysis Print your 1 st & Last name in the right corner of your paper. Study the cartoon. Answer the questions as an exit ticket: 1. What symbols in the cartoon represent immigrants? 2. Does the cartoonist present immigration as a problem or progress? 3. What is the message of the cartoon? 4. Which American value is being expressed?

Cartoon Analysis Print your 1 st & last name in the right corner of the paper. Study the cartoon. Answer the questions as an exit ticket: 1. What symbols in the cartoon represent immigrants? 2. Does the cartoonist present immigration as a problem or progress? 3. What is the message of the cartoon? 4. Which American value is being expressed?