Anyone notice the advertisement line at the bottom of the page?
Immigration Direct...Immigration Services.
Big Brother is watching.
As to the article, anyone that has taken a good American history course (or had grandparents who lived during the early 1900s), could tell you that immigrants faced hatered and bigotry from the established "natives". Imagine that...people picking on others that are different while putting your friends and similar people up the the front of the pecking order. That stuff happens all around the world from every kindergarten class right up to the corner of every office and/or bar...human nature.
However, baldy has an excellent point in regards to the differences between immigration of the past and the immigration of today...free services were not available back then. Schools were not forces to teach immigrants in their native language. Immigrants relied on themselves or the help of similar people who had come here and already adapted before them. They did not sit on their asses and demand free services from their new country.
And sorry Jon, but the vast majority of early immigrants DID try to assimilate into the existing larger community. Of course, those that stuggled most limited themselves to their small communities but made sure their children learned to survive and adapt to the new world. There certainly was a mentality that if you were to succeed in America, you learned to adapt to the customs and you learned to speak English.
Edit: now the ad on the bottom of the page says something about faucets or plumbing. Perhaps Big Brother thinks my post needs to be flushed down the toilet.
