Jewish Immigration Essay

Under what conditions did you or your family (descendants) enter the US? The Guyettes, who are originally from France, moved to Quebec, Canada to take advantage of the inexpensive land. Several generations later, my grandmother’s parents immigrated to the United States to escape the few educational and employment opportunities. According to my paternal grandfather, the Gunthers, who are originally from Germany, moved to the United States to escape the requirement to join the military. Serving in the German military meant being paid four cents a day and living in terrible conditions. In order to escape that requirement, my descendants left Germany to come to America. The Nighs, formally the Neighs, emigrated from England to America. My father …show more content…
During the World War II, Germans had many outrageous stereotypes about the Jewish population, which led them to initiate the Holocaust. For example, the propaganda against the Jews included telling the Germans that Jews kidnapped children for Passover because they needed the blood of a small Christian child. I have heard many stereotypes that the English have for other groups. Some common ones that I have heard are that they stereotype the Spanish as being poor, as the Germans being hardworking and not humorous, the Irish as drunk and as the Polish as having lazy youth, but hardworking adults who steal their jobs. The general stereotypes is also they believe that the French are the most arrogant and least trustworthy, while the Germans are the most trustworthy, but least compassionate. French-Canadians often have stereotypes about America because we are so geographically close. They often associate Americans with being fat, racist, highest rate of prisoners and uneducated about the rest of the world. Americans do have the greatest number of people in prisons, and we also have the most obesity. The racist stereotype could be connected back as early as the Civil War, and as recent as media regarding police