Today, in class, we got on the computers and started our presentations while jammin to 'sweet caroline.'
Nicole went first, and talked about Asians and why they caame to America. Some reasons Chinese and Japanese came over was to have a better life and education. The Mexicans left their homes to find work, and to flee from political termoil. Rebecca went next. She spoke of the difficulties the immigrants faced when they crossed the oceans to reach our sacred land. There was many diseases spread since everyone is so close together. Everybody had lice and there were feces everywhere, so lets just say it wasn't pretty.
She also talked about Ellis Island, which is where most immigrated traveled to in order to earn their citizenship. Ellis Island is just off the coast of NYC. About 80% successfully became a citizen, while 20 went home depressed.
Cassie talked about how the U.S. is the 'Melting Pot,' which is how people move here but don't lose their cultural identity, so we have a large mixture of varied people.
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