When People Associate Racial Background With America, Most People Automatically

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Term Paper Title	When People Associate Racial Background With America, Most People Automatically
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     When people associate racial background with America, most people automatically think of
European ancestry.  This misunderstanding of what America is, causes many problems in the country.  The
lack of recognition of various racial backgrounds and minority groups has been all too common, since the
very beginning when America was thought of as a New World.  The native people of the land were treated
like they were foreigners and eventually stripped of their own land.  When the country started to develop,
hypocritically they relied on the slave trade as part of their economy.  They made slavery a racial issue and
treated the African Americans unfairly.  Chinese, Irish, Japanese, and Jewish immigrants were discriminated
against and taken advantage of especially with labor issues.  The Chicanos found themselves in a foreign
land after the Spanish-American War.  Looking at the United States and all the different races, ethnicity,
and cultures, America can not be defined as one race or group.  The only way that America can be looked at
is a melting pot of differences.
IRISH AMERICANS
     The Irish immigration to America was a necessity for some and people felt they did not have much
of a choice but to leave.  In fact, many did not want to leave.  They were enslaved and pushed out of Ireland
by the English.  Takaki says, “The movement to America was ‘artificial’, explained one Irish migrant,
because property of Ireland had been created by English colonial policies .”(pg. 140)   The English had a
long history of persecuting the Irish.  As the English began to take over, they ceased Irish law and
regulation and took the land from them.  Their living conditions were deplorable, the average cabin for a
family consisted of four walls of dried mud.  Conditions in Ireland quickly worsened and many Irish
migrated to America.  As the Irish were migrating to America, they were sending letters back to Ireland
telling them about this new Promised Land.  This caused an enormous increase of Irish migrating to
America.
     The dream that America was the land of opportunity and the big demand for labor drew the Irish to
America.  The Irish primarily worked in construction for roads and canals during the Market Revolution.
They built thousands of miles of rail lines all over the country.  Takaki writes, “The pervasive presence of
the Irish in railroad work produced the popular saying that there was ‘an Irishman buried under every
tie’.”(pg. 146)  The jobs that the Irish immigrants...

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