When people's cultural background collide with the culture (or way of doing), in the new location they moved to.

Push pull facture:

A attractive or an propulsive factor, in a country / area. Just like a country in need of workers, will attract unemployed people from around the world.

Statue of liberty:

Stands for freedom and hope. She is / was a symbol for many immigrants coming into America.

The statue was a gift from France, back in 1875. Made most of all in steel and copper.

(Isabella & Nicholas)

Emigration:
It is when a person leaves a country.

Migration:
It is when people moves around in the country. For examples travelers.

 Civil religion:
When people gather around something as one nation. It has nothing to do with religion or culture, but instead it is about what they gather around.

 Melting pot:
It is a mix of many religions; everyone is welcome, and making a new culture.   

 Salad bowl:
It is when cultures are separate, and they don’t mix around each other. Just like a salad where you have tomato’s cucumber, onions, salad all separate from each other in one bowl. 

 

Ellis Island: 
Ellis Island is a place that immigrants came before entering The United States. It was the place where they were checked from wealth and sickness. If they were healthy, wealthy and their papers were legal, they could enter the country and start their new, “better” life. It is a good example of a "melting pot", because a lot of people with different cultures, came to Ellis Island.

 

Frontier: 
The frontier heritage represents unsettled places which were gradually settled by colonist, and because these places were so hard to live in, it provided Americans with examples of hard work which lead to the American competiveness. The American Frontier began by the east coast in 1600s and ended about 1890 when the west coast was settled.

The text ”Illegal immigration from Mexico”  is about Mexicans who travel to USA 

It’s an article from: https://www.usimmigrationsupport.org 

The text is about Mexicans who is trying to get over the border to the US with help of coyotes. Coyotes are people who have a lot of knowledge about getting people over the border to the US. The reason that many Mexicans travel to the US is because low wages in their home country, also the unemployment rate is very high. When they arrive to the US they want to get a green card so they can stand in the US for good, and when they find a job they usually want to send money or help their family to get over the border as well. 

 

The way it’s related to our main topic “The melting pot” is that the Mexicans wants freedom and be able to live in the US without bad intentions. Mexicans have different culture than the Americans - Mexicans steals many jobs in the US, and that can lead to a bad community 

“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” Trump said in his announcement speech. June 2015. 

It relates to the theme in the way Walt and the Hmong family starts as a salad bowl, and in the end becomes a melting pot where both cultures are melting together.

A minority is when a small group of people immigrate to a majority country. The minority group will come together, because they share some of the same values. The minority group will live in a parallel society, because sometimes the majority group will exclude the smaller group. This is a well-known phenomenon in a society. It can also be a more everyday life situation. For example, if the majority of students at a school wear streetwear clothes, and a minority group wear suit and tie. This can eventually lead to persecution and exclusion of the minority group.

In America, many begin their school day by reciting the pledge. The pledge of allegiance is a method to worship the American civil religion. It is a way to state that the democratic republic is built on freedom. There have been a lot of criticism on the addition of the phrase “under god” that were added in 1954. There have also been a lot of discussion whether it’s all right to reject saying the pledge, especially for small children in schools, because they can’t fully grasp the pledge they are taking. 

 

 

The poem is about this American woman and this Filipino man who is marriage and lives together. 
 Together they have two-year-olds who loves to scream ``NO!``
 The Filipino man come from a high culture and the American woman comes from a low culture. And that is the whole problem with then because it ends up in misunderstandings and confused situations. 
 When the Filipino man says ´´Yes`` it can have different meanings like:
 1. I don’t know.
 2. If you say so.
 3. If it will please you.
 4. I hope I have said yes unenthusiastically enough for you to realize I mean no.
 so because the man have all these yesses he confuses his wife a lot, and often brings a negative atmosphere between them. 
 The wife try to solve this problem for an example buying a book saying ``When I say no I feel guilty`` the man says yes but means number 3. ``if it will please you``
 In the Philippines people are very nice they don’t get mad as us but they get Tampo witch is like when we get a little mad or grumpy. If the people get really mad it’s called nagdadabog witch is often followed by foot stumping, grumbling, and the slamming of doors. Instead of talking to each other.

So all in all this poem relates to the melting pot, pretty well because it about two different cultures who wants to live together and kind of melting together and make a multicultural world and live the American dream.(the melting pot) 

This documentary is about the state of Texas, which early on was a part of the northern Mexico.

The area was empty of people and most of all a dessert. Therefore the Mexican government invited Americans to farm and do business in that part of the country. The Americans came and conquered the land. Now Texas is a part of the USA.

Mexicans immigrants - both legal and illegal workers, are not always welcome there. It seems that the Americans has forgotten the earlier history...

The Chinese immigrants helped build the Transcontinental railroad, but have not been recognized for it. In history, the American Chinese population has not been treated nicely and in some cases run out of cities (Truckee).

(Isabella & Nicholas)