Immigration

Throughout this course, we have talked a lot about the people and cultures of the Caribbean. One factor that has remained consistent to the Caribbean is traveling and immigration.

 

In class on Tuesday, we watched a program on PBS called "Latinos in America" on the immigration of Puetro Ricans and all Latinos into America in the early-mid 20th century. But many don't realize what an impact on todays society in the United States that latinos made in the early 20th century.

 

Here is a video which puts the impact of Latino Americans  in perspective

 

Also if you are interested in finding out more about the program series "Latino in America", you can watch it on PBS online, heres a clip of what you would be in store for

 

 

The United States, the land of the free and of opportunity has faced some hard times, which is no hidden fact, but while in our history classes we are learning about the depression and "hoovervilles" and the struggle to find work, we aren't looking at the immigrants that came to America to find work during this time and how they were essentially shunned. Americans wanted the immigrants to leave so they could have more job opportunities but what they wouldn't have noticed at the time was the impact having all of those immigrants led too.

 

I believe that everything happens for a reason, if things have gone differently then the world could be a totally different place today. America needed those immigrants and the combining of cultures to be the great country that it is today.