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Americanization?
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Agenda 1. Bell Ringer: Article Discussion 2. Lecture, Americanization? (15) 3. Commercials and Assimilation Activity (30) 4. Article Analysis, Assimilation in Culture 5. Discussion, should we assimilate into culture? (15) 6. Current Events Examination (15)
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Melting Pot vs. Salad Bowl Melting Pot is where cultures assimilate into a common culture, blending their beliefs in with a nation. Salad Bowl is much more dispersed. You maintain individual beliefs and customs, with limited assimilation.
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Are people forced to assimilate? Is it easier to be in the United States if you assimilate? Language and Cultural barriers have existed since the 1880s. Attitudes towards immigration have changed drastically over the years. –Nativist, 1890s –Open arms, 1920s –A gradual change to a multicultural nation by the 1970s –Economic Growth?
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1950s vs today 1950s –Materialistic –Race and conflict not shown on television –Is it a multicultural society? 1970s –Vietnam Conflict and changes in focus lead to a more open society. –Anti-war Protests have effect on Cultural norms. 2000s –Changes within the economy lead to changes in attitudes on immigration. –Commercialization becomes more multicultural. Money?
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End Quote, we’ll come back to this later. Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, expressed doubts about the effectiveness of physical barriers at the border when she was Arizona’s governor and Congress first endorsed the idea in 2005. “You show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border,” Ms. Napolitano said at the time. “That’s the way the border works.”
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