Immigration To America Research Paper

Immigration to America has changed significantly over the years. People from all over the globe come here to start a new life and for the opportunity to live freely. As times have changed so have the patterns of immigration. First, immigrants came from England, the next cluster of immigrants came from Eastern European countries and now most immigrants come from Latin America and Asia. Current immigrants aren’t as familiar with English as the earlier immigrants were which makes the evaluation of progress much different (Suarez 5). Crevecoeur and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco touch on the American identity and who fits that

While Crevecoeur defines Americans as men who are European or descendants of Europeans who have this unique mixture of blood which cannot be found anywhere else on earth (4), Orozco ponders how this new wave of immigration will …show more content…
When relating America as a melting pot he fails to include the people of color who also occupy this country. Failure to include people of color in his discourse on America indicates that Crevecoeur doesn’t consider them American. He seemingly glosses over injustices in America as he explains that Americans abide by the laws of this country with no trepidation since the laws are fair (2). It would be difficult for a person of color to stand by this statement seeing as the laws will be fair to you as long as your skin is. Crevecoeur goes on to show why European man shouldn’t want to live in “A country that had no bread for him, whose fields procured him no harvest, who met with nothing but the frowns of the rich, the severity of the laws, with jails and punishments, who owned not a single foot of the extensive surface of this planet” (3). The way Crevecoeur depicts European countries is the same way marginalized groups would depict