Italian American

The White People film dives into the issue whites and different ethnicities view white privilege. Whites believe that they have disadvantages by being the majority; on the other hand minorities see how whites don’t have their every move looked at and criticized. In the film they give many statistics but a big one is by the year of 2025 whites will be the minority in the United States. There are terms like the “melting pot” or many backgrounds coming together in the U.S. and colorblindness, the…

estimate of 2,500, it is considered the most powerful and the most powerful and the most active Italian organized crime group in the U.S. They also are well known for attacking people in high positions of power. For American society, La Cosa Nostra is the top runner for organized criminal threat. ‘Ndrangheta was formed in the 1860’s when a group of Sicilians was banished from the island by the Italian government. Needless to say, one can easily imagined the reason as to why they were banished.…

There are many reasons that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was an act passed to temporarily prohibit the immigration of the Chinese. In 1892 they extended the the Chinese Exclusion Act, this was known as the Geary Act. The main reason the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed is because of all the chinese immigrants coming from china then filling in jobs were mainly the irish men, and the german men would not work because they did not like the chinese taking…

African American cultural group was reported suspicion of the medical community. I understand African Americans have higher death rates when compared to other ethnic groups because of socioeconomic factors, but it never occurred to me that some within the groups could have mistrust of the medical community. After reading the books information on the Tuskegee Syphilis study I can really see why mistrust can exists. One could only image the number of medical mistreatments African Americans have…

Ernest Hemingway was not only an author, but an American hero. Hemingway wrote short stories, most of which were about his experiences during the war. These short war stories are very popular, not only because of the action, but because of the romance. Hemingway had a life full of surprises, lovers, tragedies, success, and heroic accomplishments. This is why Ernest Hemingway’s war experiences heavily influenced his writing and are a big reason why his works are so popular. Hemingway was born on…

The day began as Maya, Tasmeem, Hannah, Mary, Sadie, and I got into my car and jammed out to music all the way to St. Louis. As we approached the Loop, I could definitely tell we were in a very wealthy neighborhood which was indicated by the humongous mansions we saw. After parking at Starbucks Sarah and I went to the farmer's market in search of food. Since neither of us had been to the Loop and were in the spirit of trying new things, we purchased Chili Pumpkin Seed Chocolate to eat, and the…

They had a variety of languages that were in Sicily: Greek, Latin, Aragonese, Arabic, Lombardic and Norman-French and Sicilian can be its own language. Italian became the official language in Sicily. The nation government was the only one to extinguish the language. On the island, the people of Sicily host a lot of artistic, cultural, and religious events. The Sicilians enjoyed celebration. When it came…

everything you do causes you to become agitated? Well, this is the opening premise behind Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee. This movie, set in New York on one of the record breaking hottest days in the city, shows the lives of everyone within an African American neighborhood. I will be evaluating this film’s quality because I feel that even though it is fairly old, it is still a great movie that has aged very well. My reaction to this movie was that the plot was very slowly paced, but the details…

Sal and his two sons, Vito and Pino, and Mookie. Pino seems to hold much of the black community around him in contempt. Things start to heat up after Buggin’ Out feels a flare of anger at Sal for not hanging pictures of African American celebrities in the Italian American only wall of fame that decorates the pizza joint, which starts a conflict that will end with tragic consequences. This really seems to set off Buggin’ Out and he decided to something about it. Just like Spike Lee, Buggin Out…

Germany, Italy, Ireland, and Europe. Therefore, the United States had a process that called “Americanization” to make the immigrants become American so they could get benefits from that. This process had brought up many good consequences to the United States. Americanization is a simple concept that makes immigrants to the United States becoming American. American is not only just a race, ethnicity. Americanization is to bring people together. By doing that, the United States could get lots of…