Summary Of Transitional, Old And New

As the title suggests, the article "Transitional, Old and New" by author Nancy Foner examins the transition of immagrants throughout history and today. Nancy notes immagration creates a unique blending of the culture. The migrant maintains deep rooted ties to the people and culture of their native culture, while also adapting to the culture and customs of their new home. America, and New York City in particular has been a major host of immagration throughout it's history. People leave their homes and flee to the city filled with hopes of acheving the "American Dream". Although New York served as as new home, people still longed for the mother land. This lead to the development of culture based neighborhoods, such as "Chinatown"
and "Little Italy". People were able to live in America, while still maintaining a sense of self. However, this is not the case today. We live in a society where integration is stressed. Those not born in the country are heavily encouraged to erase their non-native identities. Although we live in a "free" society, there is no question that certain languages and religions are discriminated against in the United States.

What do you think is more important: fully adopting the native countries habits and culture or maintaining ones from elsewhere?
Do you think America should be a single language country? Do you think English should be the only language spoken in the US?

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59b6db42e4b02bebae75f071
Immagration is important to United States growth both economically and socially.

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F36%2F%3Fuuid%3D73542&cmp=soc-edit-tw
States are increasing programs to aid non-english speakers to better learn the language.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170904-how-americanisms-are-killing-the-english-language
Article discusses how the English language is constantly changing and updating with society.