According to Aviva Chomsky and her book They Take Our Jobs! and Twenty Other Myths about Immigration she clearly recognized that immigration has been a heated debate for many years. In addition, she uncovered twenty myths about immigration in the U.S. Many laws have been passed, and a lot of drawbacks have occurred because of these laws. The American dream is talked about around the world, which is one of many reasons people come to the U.S. But when did this American dream actually start? And with who? No one can really say they are not immigrants without knowing their history. What we do know about immigrants, is a big myth that Aviva Chomsky clarify that in her book. As a result, when two different cultures try to work …show more content…
Racism in the United States society is normally accepted. Their social system is based on the color skin of the person without looking any background history. Today’s society is all about black, brown, and white issues without realizing that is making our society fell apart with no hope of changing. Immigrants are treated different just because they came from another country. Their culture it is being kill little by little for the over bombing of the U.S. culture. In addition, immigrants are losing the sense of who they truly are in these country by the overwhelming cultural shock that they are going thru. However, the United States blame them for being immigrants and do not adapt to their rules and forms. In like manner, Aviva Chomsky reveals the myth that “The United States is a melting pot that has always welcomed immigrants from all over the world” (Chomsky 77). According to Chomsky the U.S. treats immigrants badly. For example, “People of African origin were nonpersons for the federal government, also they criminalized those who treated blacks as human beings rather than as property” (Chomsky 79). Notably, the U.S. government has taken racism as normal issue. The U.S. government force the people to act and react in certain ways in order discriminate any person that do not follow the “white standards”. According to Chomsky “The nation clearly remained defined as an entity composed of white people” (Chomsky 79). The U.S. it is a country for whites only and nobody else specially for immigrants that do not have nothing to do with it, “The United States is a white country that has law’s prohibitions against people who were not white” (Chomsky 86). The government consider the country build for “whites only” in which the immigrants always will be discriminated by their skin color no matter from what part of the world they came from, “Whites are