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…traveled abroad in 1990. The Chinese government in 1990 issued 280,000 new passports. During the same year, the United States issued seventeen thousand immigrant visas through consular offices in China, the full number allowed by American immigration law…

…were established without question and with practical effect (Toc 43) The first immigrants on American soil were from New England. The foundation of New England was something new in the world, all the attendant circumstances being both peculiar…

…Ethnicity refers to the cultural practices and out look of a community, within a society. 1 The term is preferable than theories of race and the immigrant based model. Race is defined as a scientifically discredited term, previously used to describe…

…are the Japanese. The traditional Japanese diet contains only about one-fourth as much fat as the average American diet. Breast cancer is about one-fifth as common in Japan as in the United States (Nestle 165). This statistic then takes a U-turn when Japanese immigrants…

…Reading American literature provides insight and instruction on American citizenship and can teach us is various ways how to live as Americans. Examining American literature and art are methods that would help an immigrant coming to America understand…

…Arabs were outraged, as they felt threatened by the Jewish immigration to what they thought was their own land which they have occupied for centuries. Palestinians countered the Jews claim to the land of Israel with one of their own. The United Nations…

…the plan to cut off Jewish immigration to Palestine completely in five years and create an Arab state in the area. The Yishuv fought the White Paper with a passion. If the White Paper took effect, there would be no chance of a Jewish state being created…

…, immigration and even culture must be addressed by the government; a sentiment echoed by Hugh Thorburn, in his book Party Politics in Canada, he says "The traditional goals of the Federal Government to promote national identity and unity - have become too limited…

…matter. There are differences, for example, between assimilation and acculturation very much like the distinctions between identity and culture. Assimilation is the process by which Immigrants come to call themselves American. When is it that people who…

…that was unparalleled in world history, Wilson forged a nation of immigrants into a fighting whole. An examination of public opinion before the war, propaganda efforts during the war, and the endurance of propaganda in peacetime raises significant questions about…