1.2 Diversity in the United States
People have always been migrating all around the world to find their place on the Earth. There are a lots of reasons why people change left their homelands and move their lives to different region of the world. Sometimes they are forced to migrate because of political situation or religious persecutions in their homeland and sometime they just want to escape from poverty, dream about get their standards of life better. Many of immigrants have been arriving and still are arriving to the United States attracted by the vision of start a new better life , make a career, make “the American Dream” come true. United States have always been perceived as a country of big opportunities , a place where everybody
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Hector St. John de Crevecoeur - French- American author -in his “Letter to an American Farmer” : Letter III “What is American”(1782) tried to describe the portrait of American citizen. He states that the American ,”this new man” in the time of migration is either an European or the descendant of an European. He refers to the unique mixture of bloods which can be found only in the America.The author turns to an average American citizen and says that in his family there is doubtless a member with European roots- either English, Dutch or French.He describes “the new American” as a person who is leaving all his old prejudices and manners behind but in a return gains new ones based on his new mode of life, the order of new government and the new rank he holds. This reading was very important because in the times when the migration to the United States have been developing many of American citizens were lost in the new multicultural reality and struggle to answer the question about their own identity which was in a way slowly vanishing within growing mixture of various cultures and ethnic