Ch. 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Read pages 218-224 (The “Era of Good Feelings”) What were the issues that impacted the U.S. economy following the war of 1812? Some direct things that happened because of war of 1812 included: Westward Surge of migrants being pushed out because they had nowhere to live and farm. Another is an increase in the textile Industry because of more cotton growing in the south.…
Throughout the world, many countries have experienced nationalism, which is showing pride in your country or background. There has always been nationalism in the US, throughout the many time periods nationalism has changed and impacted people of the US. From the very beginning of the country to present day America. Nationalism first started in the revolution era, when they wanted to become their own independent country from Great Britain and progressed all the way to the imperialism era, when the US started to expand. These two moments of nationalism helped progress the US and its nationalism.…
This enables Americans to love their country and hate anyone who is against America and its…
In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act, created to prohibit the immigration of Chinese people to America, was passed. If this legislation was passed today, in regards to any demographic, there would be national uproar. But, because of negative stereotypes, as well as fear of societal changes; the United States passed the act that forbade Chinese immigrants from seeking opportunity within the United States. Chinese men began to arrive in the United States in substantial numbers in 1848. This was shortly after the beginning of the Gold Rush, when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California.…
Violating Civil Liberties During WWII America decided to violate hundreds of thousands of Americans civil rights and Liberties. It all began once the Japanese decided to do a surprise bombing against the United States at Pearl Harbor. This struck fear into the heart of Americans against the Japanese. Not long after, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 which forced all people of Japanese ancestry into relocation camps.…
Ethnic Notions, is a documentary about the racial stereo types that were portrayed of blacks in America. This film examines the characters created to depict blacks and the social impact it had on the world. The film reflects a tone of realizing the truth of the negative impacts these stereotypes. The people that are depicted in this film misrepresented as jolly souls who are satisfied with their condition of servitude. The film is being told through the eyes of scholars who grew up during an era where these stereotypes were prevalent.…
The United States prides itself being open to all and a “mixing pot” for different kinds of people which influences the progressive culture of the nation. The nation is constantly striving to be politically correct and stand up for what is right. When the public of the United States sees something wrong, rallies in support of the cause come out strong. Although this culture in a country is great for the future success, it may have the possibility to construe history.…
Stereotype: A Threat to Intellectual Identity and Performance According to Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, one cause of the relatively poor achievement faced by African Americans in school and by women in math and science-related fields is stereotype threat. This theory is based on the assumption that school success results from self-identification with the school and its subdomains which entails sustained motivation. If this relationship isn’t formed or is broken, achievement may suffer. Additionally, both authors advocate that an understanding and elimination of stereotype threats in an educational environment, also called “wise schooling,” is a solution to narrowing the performance gaps seen between the minority groups and white male students.…
Immigrants are not the ones who are endangering the American civilization, but by the Americans themselves who believe in Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was a common belief held by people during 1880-1925 that lead to problems with economic discrimination, immigration, and racism. Social Darwinism caused most Americans to believe they are superior, which made them attack other races by saving they will disrupt Americans civilization just because of the country they are from and the events that are happening their. For example, “The Chinese, if permitted freely to enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance.” (Document1)…
After the Revolutionary War, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (W.A.S.P.s) were in power, they held all the political offices; they owned the most land, they had the most profitable businesses, and the largest factories. They enjoyed being in control of everything and they wanted to keep that control and power. After the Civil War more immigrants were coming to America to their share of the wealth they believed America had. These immigrants now were coming from all over the world, not just Northern Europe and England. Some of the larger groups of immigrants were coming from Germany, Ireland, and Southern Italy.…
After suffering through 8 years of Barack Hussein Obama and listening to all the anti-American Leftists out there proclaiming that if you object to his policies, you're racist, hateful and obstructionist, whether those policies were unConstitutional or not. Now those same antiAmerican leftists are doing everything they can to obstruct Donald Trump at every turn. Simple ideas of returning choices back to individual states and school systems, instead of a federal bureaucracy mandating what our kids eat and the sexual indoctrination of 6 year olds.…
Negative stereotypes of Italian Americans have gone through several changes. None the less, the more prominent stereotypes have found their way into modern day society. Similarly to other immigrant groups, Italians were seen as an inferior race and they were often compared to black Americans since they were accustomed to the same work skills. There were many stereotypes that applied to the Italian American, this group of people was often categorized as dangerous, inferior, disloyal, etc. Even though Italians were eventually treated as white, it does not erase the stereotyping that one associates them with.…
American Born Chinese and stereotypes “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” I believe this quote by Margaret Mead is very accurate and is something that all parents, teachers and adults should think about. “A stereotype is used to categorize a group of people. People don 't understand that type of person, so they put them into classifications, thinking that everyone who is that needs to be like that, or anyone who acts like their classifications is one.”…
Following the post-9/11 terrorist attacks anti-Islamic violence in America spikes. According to the FBI, 28 hate crimes committed in 2000 were found to be anti-Islamic. In 2001 that number jumped to 481 (Villemez). Violence increased so much that some Muslim Americans received death threats from strangers, just for being Muslim. Muslim Americans were just as shocked and taken aback as other Americans were during 9/11.…
In a society where culture and value are constantly evolving, we as a species sometimes need to take a step back and analyze all the things that surround us to see where our societal values lie. Usually, we do not see or understand these hidden values until they are shoved in our face or we have to deal with them directly. However, we can all begin to understand and analyze these contemporary cultural values by implementing some form of cynicism in regard to exposing and showing all the different avenues of a situation even if sometimes it is contrary to popular belief. I don't mean cynicism in the form of just being blatantly negative to certain statements or ideas. I mean cynicism in the form of questioning the validity of someones statement or just simply being curious of the motives of that…