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Ellis Island was a recipient of an array of immigrants from a diverse set of countries who spoke different languages and had different faiths. By the mid 20th century, however, these fragmented identities were no where to be found. There were no more ethnic whites. White America became what most immigrant descendants identified with.
Ellis Island was a recipient of an array of immigrants from a diverse set of countries who spoke different languages and had different faiths. By the mid 20th century, however, these fragmented identities were no where to be found. There were no more ethnic whites. White America became what most immigrant descendants identified with.
Because they all came from European Caucasian countries, and once they learned English, were indistinguishable from each other. They did not have "different faiths", they were all Judeo-Christian, and those three sects were already present prior to the waves of immigration.
I presume you are drawing a contrast with the present-day experience of immigrants to Europe, who are not assimilating into their new countries. Two of the reasons for that is because A) they look different from those already present, and B) they bring previously unrepresented faiths, neither of which can be changed as easily as language.
Because they all came from European Caucasian countries, and once they learned English, were indistinguishable from each other. They did not have "different faiths", they were all Judeo-Christian, and those three sects were already present prior to the waves of immigration.
I presume you are drawing a contrast with the present-day experience of immigrants to Europe, who are not assimilating into their new countries. Two of the reasons for that is because A) they look different from those already present, and B) they bring previously unrepresented faiths, neither of which can be changed as easily as language.
Ellis Island was a recipient of an array of immigrants from a diverse set of countries who spoke different languages and had different faiths. By the mid 20th century, however, these fragmented identities were no where to be found. There were no more ethnic whites. White America became what most immigrant descendants identified with.
I know a lot of Poles, Italians, and Greeks who wouldn't agree with the bolded sentence.
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