Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Life as an immigrant

The reasons of leaving my homeland were due to violent conditions. Many German immigrants had a hard time immigrating due to political issues. Some Germans disperse to the Western Hemisphere, some to Australia, and others to European countries. Germans were in search of an easier and better life with more opportunities.

The journey to the United States was not that harsh. Although Germany was constantly under attack making Germans to fled away. German emigrants were once in a while stopped by its rulers, but this encourage to the increase of the flood of immigrants leaving to the U.S. In 1709 more than 15,000 left to Britain and 3,000 crossed the Atlantic ocean to get to New York. Later on, modernization and inventions like the steam boat made it easier for Germans to immigrate. Routes through Britain were taken to get to the U.S.

An estimated number of German immigrants were living in Pennsylvania, but the majority of Germans were localized in the countryside. As Chinese immigrants made "Chinatown", Germans wanted to be profitable and so Germans wanted to take possession of a new enterprise. German faced problems with unity among themselves. Not all Germans once being Americans shared the same pride. Religion also affected Germans' unification. Not all Germans were religiously equal.

Immigrants in the case of Germans was not that difficult for them to immigrate to the U.S. I could be wrong by saying that Germans didn't had a hard time getting to the U.S. but it is true because through modernization immigrating became a piece of cake for them because they created their own routes and did not had to pay no one to transport them getting to the U.S. Ironically, the issues that Germans faced were cause among themselves, and so it cause divisions based on geography, religion, and ideology. 
If I were an immigrant during this time and I had to face all this trouble I would had risk it all because at the end of the day all the hard time they passed through was worth it.




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