I wanted to discuss the underlying attitude of America from this chapter. A great deal of this chapter covers immigration and urbanization. As we known form the past Americans didn't always treat those who were different than them with any sort of decency and usually dehumanized said people. Immigrants were coming to America thinking " the streets were paved with gold. When they got there they saw that they weren't paved at all. Then they realized that they were expected to pave them." The constant back and forth, first wanting immigrants to come and do all the hard and dirty jobs, giving employers the chance to pay their workers next to nothing, and then not wanting immigrants to come to America because their taking all of their jobs, and
