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A 10 page essay in which the writer argues that when the scope of a discussion on immigration issues ventures beyond the realm of European immigrant experiences, that is, the experience of Irish, Italian or Scandinavian immigrants, one ventures into the realm of multiple paradoxes, wherein the idealism of the nationalistic myth meets with the reality of discrimination and the systematic exclusion that derives primarily from the legacy of slavery. This discussion explores the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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major difference between Americans, in regards to immigration, is primarily how long ago ones progenitors made the immigrant journey to the U.S. In 1783, George Washington, as the first U.S.
president, expressed the hope that the new nation would "establish an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and all religions" (Pedraza 491). While this ideal sounds
high-minded, pluralistic, and remarkably contemporary in its sentiment, history shows that, fundamentally, Washington was referring to providing an asylum to people who were of an ancestral extraction similar to himself,
that is having European ancestry. At that time, this position was, nevertheless, revolutionary, as the general course of European history is one war after another between the continents various nationalities.
America comes closest to meeting the idealism of Washingtons statement when one considers immigration experience only from the context of the various waves of European immigrants. However, when the
scope of a discussion on immigration issues ventures beyond the realm of European immigrant experiences, that is, the experience of Irish, Italian or Scandinavian immigrants, one ventures into the realm
of multiple paradoxes, wherein the idealism of the nationalistic myth meets with the reality of discrimination and the systematic exclusion that derives primarily from the legacy of slavery. This discussion
will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedraza classifies the paradoxes that define American immigration experience according to three
major categories. The first paradox derives from the "contradiction between a society where vast numbers of its citizens were able to achieve the American dream" while others, particularly immigrants who
are ethnically, racially or cultural different from Europeans, are "systematically denied" the "equality of opportunity" that is required to achieve the American Dream (Pedraza 479). To systematically include some but
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