The staff on Ellis Island many times considered inability to understand questions a reason to apply the label “mental defective.” Although interpreters in various languages were available, the “wretched refuse” were often peasants with no education or comprehension of basic concepts of city life..Once the need for cheap workers was done, once “native” citizens worried they were being inundated by people of Eastern and Southern European origins, (often Catholics!) back those people went. Quotas for certain nationalities were cut sharply. A few generations later, children of such people would have been educated, productive members of American society. .People already here, in other areas of the country, were in as bad or even worse shape. And were for many years after. World War Two mixed the population pot out of necessity, and the U.S. was the better for it.
So you agree with Henry Ford, that “History is Bunk”? Even though you might not agree with everything in it, please read Stephen Jay Gould, THE MISMEASURE OF MAN.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
The staff on Ellis Island many times considered inability to understand questions a reason to apply the label “mental defective.” Although interpreters in various languages were available, the “wretched refuse” were often peasants with no education or comprehension of basic concepts of city life..Once the need for cheap workers was done, once “native” citizens worried they were being inundated by people of Eastern and Southern European origins, (often Catholics!) back those people went. Quotas for certain nationalities were cut sharply. A few generations later, children of such people would have been educated, productive members of American society. .People already here, in other areas of the country, were in as bad or even worse shape. And were for many years after. World War Two mixed the population pot out of necessity, and the U.S. was the better for it.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
So you agree with Henry Ford, that “History is Bunk”? Even though you might not agree with everything in it, please read Stephen Jay Gould, THE MISMEASURE OF MAN.