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A 12 page paper discussing just how 'American' the Irish are. Throngs—literally millions—of Irish immigrants poured into America in the mid-1800s and again toward the end of that century in response both to rumors of America as the land of opportunity at a time when their own country not only was in economic ruin but also could not support all of its people. There are those who maintain that the Irish were never fully assimilated into the American culture, but those making such claims often fail to take into account all applicable factors. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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country not only was in economic ruin but also could not support all of its people. There are those who maintain that the Irish were never fully assimilated into
the American culture, but those making such claims often fail to take into account all applicable factors. The Irish Come to America Hector St. John de Crevecoeur was
a French immigrant who published Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. de Crevecoeur loved his new land and described it as a magical place free of the traditions
and customs that had gripped European society, allowing a new race to emerge. He wrote: "What then is the American, this new man? . . . He is an
American who, leaving behind him all ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the government he obeys, and the new rank
he holds. . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world"
(Gerstle 524). Accounts such as these, though gratifying to read all these years later, allow us to be complacent in the troubles the waves of immigrants faced as they sought
to make new lives for themselves after leaving behind all they had ever known, being fully aware upon leaving that they likely would never again see their homeland and the
place where generations of their families had lived and died. Among those immigrants, few faced such unabashed prejudice as the Irish. In todays environment of multiculturalism and emphasis on
diversity, the views of times past is obscured. Then, it was truly a matter of "melting" into the new culture that was the goal, not only of the US
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