Upon arrival in the United States, many foreign immigrants experienced extreme hatred at the hands of the Americans.
Upon arrival in the United States, many foreign immigrants experienced extreme hatred at the hands of the Americans.
As more and more immigrants arrived from overseas, along with African Americans from the south, racial superiority among Americans continued to rise. The trickle effect, so to say, of discrimination was shifted continuously to the newest ethnicity arriving in America. In a way it was saying that until a new ethnic group arrives, the most recent arrival will be treated the poorest of all. This abuse was clearly evident in the jobs immigrants were forced to undertake. Many were forced into English-speaking factories where they could neither talk to other workers or management nor understand the warnings or instructions on machinery because they were written in English. In addition to the newest immigrants receiving poor treatment, was the high number of hours they were forced to work each day. It was common for an immigrant to work twelve hour days, seven days a week, and receive barely enough to live. One week they would work the day shift, the next would be the night shift.
First generation immigrants had no ability to afford luxuries. They were put through hell at their jobs and came out with nothing to show. It was common for several families of the same ethnicity to live together in a house to make the cost of living realistic to them. The life of a first generation immigrant, for the most part, never supplied the slightest bit of happiness
Many immigrants got by on carrying hopes of being able to provide their children and their grandchildren with a place to live at no cost. There was no drastic improvement in the lives of immigrants until the second and third generations who, upon arrival, would live with their elder generation. This gave them the ability to save some of their salary which allowed for improvements in...