Who are
the Americans?
Discuss
and note your ideas
Who lives
in America? Where did they come from? When?
Spain ,
they came from Europe , in the 17th century
Have you
seen any films about people emigrating to America? Which?
yes
Were there
any immigrants on The Titanic?
Research
Look at
this website and study the data, especially the ‘by region’ information
to find out where Americans come from:
1. Explore
the historical timeline to see where the immigrants arrived from in
different eras. Choose one link from ‘A New Land’, ‘Expanding America’ and ‘A
Place of Refuge’ menus and note: Where did the people come from and
why did they go to America.
A New
Land: they came from Europe (Spain)( France) (England) most of them they
immigrated because of freedom and food and resources
Expanding
America: They had large of immigrates while the revolution war . in
19th century 1 million slaves from Africa where imported there and
they were not citizen in early 19th century nearly all immigrates
was from western Europe
A Place of
Refuge: world war 2 happened and the economy went down and it wasn’t the
perfect land to go and the immigration percentage went down . some people
thought of immigrating to some another country
2. Look at
the ‘Building a Modern America’ – ‘A Multicultural America’ page. What
information can you find about recent US immigration? A
major change to immigration legislation in 1965 paved the way for new waves of
immigration from all over of the world. Asians and Latin Americans arrived in
large numbers, while European immigration declined.
3. Now
click on ‘Explore Ellis Island’ and answer the questions. (There is 1
question per page.)
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<!--[endif]-->Where did immigrants land when they
arrived in America? Ellis
Island Immigration Station between 1892 and 1954
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Atlantic? This trip across the Atlantic ocean lasted for one two
weeks
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<!--[endif]-->What was the first thing people saw
in America? Statue of liberty
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immigrants? Paper with all the names
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<!--[endif]-->What did the doctors do while the
people walked upstairs? Test the people for any illness
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<!--[endif]-->Why couldn’t women enter America
alone?
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<!--[endif]-->What did the chalk marks X and P
mean? What happened to those people?
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<!--[endif]-->How many questions did they ask
immigrants? Twenty nine questions
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<!--[endif]-->When did pre-departure health checks
start?
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<!--[endif]-->What facilities were available at the
bottom of the stairs?
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<!--[endif]-->What happened at ‘The Kissing Post’?
it got this nickname because its where family and friends waited their loved
ones
Think!
When people come to work in the UAE, what must they do?
(Paperwork, procedures, tests…)
America is
a multicultural society; it is culturally diverse. It is not a ‘melting pot’, it
is more like a ‘salad bowl’. Americans often talk about being ‘first
generation’, ‘second generation’ or third generation’ immigrants. ‘First
generation’ is term used for the children of immigrants, ‘second generation’ is
the term for the grandchildren of immigrants, so ‘third generation’ is
……………………………………………………? By the second or third generation, the connection with the
immigrant’s country may be very weak or non-existent so we can say that these
people have assimilated into the culture. Over the years, some people and
cultural groups have assimilated into American society. They have blended and
are examples of assimilation. When two cultures meet, acculturation happens.
This is the meeting of the cultures and the process of adapting to each other
and adopting new behaviours, which can be a one-way or two-way process. However,
some groups may keep many of the customs, traditional ways and characteristics
of their home culture even though they adapt to the new country. These people
have acculturated by adopting new behaviours in their new country, but they have
not assimilated. Immigrants and the first generation may acculturate but not
assimilate, but later generations may be assimilated.
