Essays on Nativism

1. Identify a period related to Nativism. Nativism has deep roots in the history of the U.S., but, particularly, during the previous century, when both labour organizations and nativists fought for restriction on the amount of immigrants. One of the ways to expel foreign workers was literacy test that was not adopted by the president. Its opponents wanted to create special commission, which resulted in The U. S. Immigration Commission that had a task to examine immigration process and its effect. After the First World War, main focus of nativists was put on representatives of Catholic Church, Hebrews, and ...

Contrast the journey to America described by Richard Whyte coming to America from Ireland, with Richard Duden's description of the Midwest as he travels around the countryside in the 1820s seeking to persuade German immigrants to make the trip to lands far richer than anything they can expect to possess back in the homeland. Is one more "right" than the other in his presentation? Both Richard Whyte and Richard Duden pioneered efforts to inhabit America. Richard Whyte’s journey gave hope to many Irish people resulting in waves of immigrants from the country in the United States. The journey ...

Governor Wilson ran full-page ads in the major California newspapers, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, to launch his anti-immigrant based re-election campaign. The ads were in the form of a letter to President Clinton, demanding that he halt illegal immigration to the State of California as well as reimburse the state for the cost of federally mandated health, education, welfare services, and the incarceration of undocumented immigrants. Remarkably, Governor Wilson was able to narrow the complex political and economic conditions besieging California. It proved to be a politically astute move. In doing so, Wilson obfuscated the ...

The idea of moral nativism posits that the ability to be "good" and "moral" is innate: that is, ingrained into our vary nature. However, this notion has been hotly contested in philosophical and academic circles ever since its inception: are we taught how to be good, or do we just know how from our own abilities and biological makeup? James, in his book An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics, posits that moral nativism exists, and that our competence and empathy come from aspects of our psychology and biology hard-wired into us (p. 88). In this essay, the most compelling of ...