The variety of different cultures.

Capter seven goes into detail about the immigration of Italians, Greeks and Arabs, as well as Armenians.
All of them are located in the middle east but are quite different cultures each for themselves. We get to know which trades they brought to america, which struggles they went through and what religion they brought with them.
Throughout the reading I noticed that many of them are much more critical thinkers and long time thinkers as well as business driven they are. The Greeks, and Armenians started of as small workers or peddlers and saved up all the money they made to become business owners, gain respect and buy land.
The work ethnic as far as I can say, seems more sophisticated and very strong. Those immigrants had a goal and wanted to fulfill it. Even if it meant to work hard and not have a life for a while- in compare   to the Irish that slowly learned but never has such a thrive as the Mediterranean. Overall I am happy all this cultures landed in america because other wise we would miss out on some very smart and world changing ideas like bank systems and variety that made america greater.

In chapter eight we read about the immigration of Poles, Jews and Hungarians. Which I think is an even more interesting chapter. I have a little of Jewish blood in my history. My grandmas grandparents were half jewish. But luckily my grandma was not seen as jewish and survived the second world war. However, in this chapter we learn that jewish people gave up fast the working for other people other than jews. They lived in manly New York city and were involved in religion and even started organizations that helped other jews over sea. They were involved in politics and great thinkers and entrepreneurs. Later on many jews created film and established movie theaters. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't had Broadway or great success in Hollywood.
When I red about the building and establishing of movie theaters it reminded me of the movie "Inglorious Basteards". Anyhow, if you haven't seen the film you better watch it. It's pretty good but it is fiction but entertaining. I love all the things that involve Hiltler getting killed.  (JK)

What would america be without the germans?

I been thinking about the last class. We covered the topics of Irish immigrants and German immigrants.
We been talking about all the great engineers, poets, writers and overall well educated people that came from Europe and especially germany. But lets give the Irish a little recognition, even they were first rough on their edges. They also learned to adapt and became successful as well. I have to say that I met a lot of Irish blood people and I have the impression that they have a good sense of humor and stay quite calm in situations that are out of hand.
But back to the germans. I am from a small city called Muehlhausen and we actually had some great people living there back in the days.
As a child in first grade we had to do reports on the people that made the city famous. One person that always stood out to me was Johann August Roebling. He was an engineer that was born and raised in my city and actually went to the same school as me. I always thought of becoming someone that made a change in others people life and this guy probably got me hooked on that idea. This guy helped engineering the Brooklyn Bridge and became very known in this kind of business.  So I guess I feel a sense of bride when I say I am german. And even having a green-card or becoming a citizen doesn't let me forget that I am german. I believe I would always keep the tradition I grew up with an cherish them with others. I do know that I became pretty americanized for germans but I am still much german for americans. I am sure that I am not the only one who has this experience and I believe its been like this for decades even when the first germans came in the 18 hundreds. http://roeblingmuseum.org/about-us/john-a-roebling/

a little something for the people over 21.

Hey guys... If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be german and act like a german than go to Munich. Emmmm... sorry I meant go to San Francisco. They have a October fest this weekend.
Get drunk, be loud and eat a Pretzel. Make sure you are 21 if you wanna have german fun in america...
otherwise safe all your money and travel to germany... doesn't matter where than beer is everywhere and everyone is aloud to drink there...
Happy hump day... Oktoberfest

Oh one more weird thing... did it every appeared strange to you that Octoberfest is at the end of September???
So I would say another thing people in america need to fix...

reading of chapter 4

I been thinking about this all week and I have to say that a certain part in the book strut me more than anything else and it is something I can relate a lot too as well.
The aspect that immigrants that would come get sixty five to eighty dollars. An unskilled laborer would make as much as one dollar a day and abut eight hundred dollars during his indenture. And it is known that a guy named Bradfield make a tenth of this in his indenture in four years. The expenses of food, clothing, shelter and freedom was a part of his mind but it was defiantly not a great deal. (Going to America p. 74) However, for those times both sides made a bargain for this trade relationship.
This part actually reminded me a lot of myself. Long story short- I wanted to leave germany and signed up with an agency that found me a family (labor giver) in the US. The person I going to contract with for 12 month paid for my flight roundtrip, car, shelter and food. I had to work 40-45 hours a week sometimes even on the weekends and lived with them and didn't got more than $195 a week. That was not more than $4 an hour. Which is under the minimum salary allowed in the United states. But because I was german and under german condensations it was ok. Which no being a Nanny and a permanent resident, which means almost a citizen of United States of America I make over 6 times more and hour  than before. So I can kind of feel for the immigrants and I kind of got a sense how it feels when you are not a part of this country.

the first reading

In the first reading we looked at the way the Colonizing in the New World began. It has been described that many people were told falls things and told beautiful facts in order to immigrant to maryland or New England. Most of the people were told that is the land were Honey and MIlk is flowing and a better future will be preserved and waiting for them. But the opposite was the case. Most of the immigrants would face depth for the next seven years and maybe not even survive the hard labor, disease or the different weather conditions. It has been documented that the immigration rate was 80% and most people died in less than six months. In 1625 3000 people died and only 1200 people were left from many that came. It was devastating and a setback for the english community however it was worth for the rich and glorious people, because it was an investment and for every person that a rich guy paid to immigrate, he would get land and become even richer. Immigrants did not became a citizen for many years - they were servants and would be the poorest. However time changed and over the years those servants started farming and buying land or inheriting land from the owners and moved up on the ladder towards success.
      Another astonishing fact is that woman were used as breeder - this term was described in chapter two. Basically because of the significant dead rate in the 1620's the english men needed to repopulate and they men that would come to the new world were young, ignorant, single, servants and slaves. Woman would be bought and brought over and just be there to have babies that can do more labor and children can help out early. They wouldn't cost the shipment and were easy to get. Woman had no voice or chance and were just glad to be alive and have hope to be freed some day.