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 Dinesh
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Within this last century, such escapees and expellees helped us produce a new kind of American renaissance -- a New World rebirth of Old World art and thought. Their message is pecularity poignant because it came along with, and in spite of, a drastic change in the American spirit. In thse years, despite, the effort of some of the most respectable, most “cultured” American immigrants artists vindicated the American tradition of cosmopolitanism against unfriendly new American provincialisms.

The appropriate symbol of our attitude toward newcomers for the whole first century of our nation’s life was the Statue of Liberty. Planned for Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor to commemorate the Centennial of the American Revolution in 1876, it was finally unveiled by President Cleveland on October 28, 1886. On its base were inscribed Emma Lazarus now familiar (often parodied) lines:

… Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tampest-tost, to me,
I life my lamp beside the golden door!

Emma Lazarus spoke for the century of the Open Door. ~ Page 211
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 Dinesh
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HIDDEN HISTORY
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 Dinesh
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Four million Italians emigrated to US in the thirty five years before the start of the First World War, and many more left for other places such as Argentina. Emigration from these countries was a boon to the United States, where numbers were swollen by a huge pre-First World War wave of migrants. In the generation after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886, her torch would welcome fewer immigrants from traditional lands -- the British Isles and Germany -- and more from the further reaches of Europe. These were people suffering from poverty and (in the case of Jews) persecution at home but who were also experiencing their own population expansions. These huddled masses and their offspring would soon be turned into Americans, providing their new homelands with the population advantage that would propel it to world leadership. Although their fertility rates soon began to fall once they arrived in the New World, they were still high, and so their numbers continued to swell for the first few decades after their arrival. The 6 million Jews of the United States today are overwhelmingly the product of this late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century population movement, as are the 60% of Argentinians who today claim Italian descent. ~ Page 87 - Excerpt “Human Tide” author : Paul Moreland
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