Summary
One of the great miracles that is America has been the 19th and 20th century achievement of accepting, even welcoming, millions of immigrants from all corners of the globe and leaving them alone as they and their children acclimated themselves to the joys of opportunity in our democracy. What other country would have accepted as a symbol of its unquestioning hospitality the deserved implantation of the Statue of Liberty in New York's spacious harbor?
Maurice Cranston, the late British philosopher, once described "the almost miraculous achievement in the United States [of] a community of near equals out of an immigrant stock of enormous diversity." The achievement, he said, "was not the work of America's political institutions; it was the work of American social institutions, schools, churches, neighborhood associations and such like."See the full content of this document
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Immigration's New Ingredients
And these social institutions worked in harmony with the political institutions. Between 1890 and 1914, several million Jews came to this countr...
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