Market Revolution Multicultural America
Market Revolution and its influence to a Multicultural America.
Ronald Takaki retells the American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities. The stories of many ethnical groups who helped create America’s mighty economy and rich culture, in his book, A Different Mirror. All these indigenous people were a part of what America is today, a more multicultural country. These peoples were looking for a better life, and they helped create a concrete backbone for America’s economic structure. This led to the rise ‘market revolution’, which changed America culturally. The revolution was good for America, but for the immigrants, it was abysmal. They were not viewed as Americans, despite their efforts to make America what it is today. We will see as the Irish were deprived of their land, coming to the land of the free in search for a better life, how they later marginalize the Mexicans. The Market revolution opened the way to making America more multicultural but not all cultures were equal.
The Market Revolution opened the way of making an ever more multicultural America. The demand for …show more content…
Meanwhile, Irish immigrant men labored in New England shoe factories, making shoes from hides shipped by Mexican workers in California. Chinese railroad workers laid the transcontinental tracks that closed the frontier and changed forever the lives of the Indians in the west. The Irish and Mexicans were treated below average. These peoples fled their land for a better life. The Irish for instance were made to suffer in their own country. They were viewed as people living outside of ‘civilization’. All their production both commercial and agricultural was under the British. They involuntary survived on potatoes and
Ronald Takaki retells the American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities. The stories of many ethnical groups who helped create America’s mighty economy and rich culture, in his book, A Different Mirror. All these indigenous people were a part of what America is today, a more multicultural country. These peoples were looking for a better life, and they helped create a concrete backbone for America’s economic structure. This led to the rise ‘market revolution’, which changed America culturally. The revolution was good for America, but for the immigrants, it was abysmal. They were not viewed as Americans, despite their efforts to make America what it is today. We will see as the Irish were deprived of their land, coming to the land of the free in search for a better life, how they later marginalize the Mexicans. The Market revolution opened the way to making America more multicultural but not all cultures were equal.
The Market Revolution opened the way of making an ever more multicultural America. The demand for …show more content…
Meanwhile, Irish immigrant men labored in New England shoe factories, making shoes from hides shipped by Mexican workers in California. Chinese railroad workers laid the transcontinental tracks that closed the frontier and changed forever the lives of the Indians in the west. The Irish and Mexicans were treated below average. These peoples fled their land for a better life. The Irish for instance were made to suffer in their own country. They were viewed as people living outside of ‘civilization’. All their production both commercial and agricultural was under the British. They involuntary survived on potatoes and