Todays immigrants don’t pack that well.
“The culture of poverty has some universal characteristics which transcend regional, rural-urban, and even national differences…..
-Oscar Lewis, “The Culture of Poverty” in Four Horseman
The United States has always been a nation of immigrants. Immigrants like the Irish in the 1840’s who left to escape starvation and would later in the 1860’s welcome the Civil War as a job opportunity with guaranteed meals and a roof over their heads. Whether it is the Italians, Scandinavians, English, Scottish….you name it, let’s face it, they were not “European nobility” upon their arrival by any stretch of the imagination. Immigrants were struggling, often times impoverished. Now, we are faced with what has been labeled our current “immigration crisis”. Numerous immigrants are arriving from our southern borders and they are coming to America for the same reasons Immigrants have always arrived here; opportunity.
A lot of people are motivated by the American dollar…
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