New Immigrants

Finally, the main difference and major contribution to Native-born fears was the willpower of the “New Immigrants” to preserve their culture regardless of the costs. Although the “Old Immigrants” also tried to keep their culture alive, they did this in a very minimalistic way in comparison to the restaurants, social clubs, and more that the “New Immigrants” created in an attempt to preserve their culture. This also was faced with opposition especially by antiforeign organizations such as the “American Protective Association” or APA who made every effort to prevent Roman Catholic from taking office and even suppressed the faith by depicting their nuns in “lustful fantasies.” Besides degrading the culture of the new individuals who had come to America, the Native-born also developed organized labor which emphasized the language barrier of the “New Immigrants” as a means to protect American workers and their jobs from the “inferior.” Organized Labor was not the only tactic to
However, it was the Native-born Americans who were highly discriminatory, which is very ironic. These people who claimed to be “Americans” opposed these “New Immigrants” due to their race, their beliefs or lack of, and their devotion to their culture. These are our basic rights, however, the people who claimed to be Americans during this time used organized labor, restricting laws, and antiforeign organizations to defend themselves from these people. It was these people who made America a melting pot rather than a dumping ground, and it was these people that made America the great country it is today regardless of the nativist feelings during the late nineteenth