In direct response to the Great Irish Potato Famine, there was a massive influx of immigrants to the U.S. New York was the largest port city in the U.S., so they received most of them. Very similar to the American from a different state being told “Welcome to America” Richard Rodriquez said “people would ask me, ‘Where you from?”I was born in this county, but I knew the question as meant to decipher my darkness, my looks.” When the fear of losing jobs, and losing the american dream began to grow, citizens began to discriminate all people, even Americans from a different part of America. Now that there is new fear, Americans join together, this time without including immigrants “something happened in America to create the Americans.” This
