ISBN10: 3640704452, ISBN13: 9783640704453, [publisher: GRIN Verlag] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Amerikanistik), course: American Immigration Policies, language: English, abstract: Although Americans are proud of their country as an Immigrant Nation and considerit as a refuge for all opressed people of other nations, they are very strict about the fact whom they allow to enter. They acknowledge that America's strenght has derived from the diversity of its citizens but nevertheless most often people that differ too much in their cultural or ethnic background from the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideal are left out. The contradiction in this behaviour was described by Steven Vincent Benet when he said 'Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.'Americans have furthermore always mystified the foundation of America and left out of the narrative certain events like for example the exploitation of slaves, the brutality against the Native Americans and the annexation of Mexico etc. Their liberal myth of pilgrims who out of love for freedom and equality formed a democracy therefore differs from the actual history of America. Ali Behdad refers to this fact as Historical A ...
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 3640704452, ISBN13: 9783640704453, [publisher: Grin Verlag] Softcover
[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]

Norderstedt Grin Verlag 2010 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 64 p.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 3640704452 9783640704453 [US]