2.7 Mid-Semester 2 Blog Post

2.7 Mid-Semester 2 Blog Post

City Beautiful Movement, New York

1) I think the most important thing I learned about immigration is the way it has evolved to fit societies standards. For example, when American's were against Chinese people, the Chinese Exclusion Act was created and it prohibited Chinese people from being able to immigrate to the United States. The laws of immigration evolved to fit the beliefs of American's at the time.

2) The most important thing I learned about immigration today is that there is more than one way to look at it. For example, people who look at it from a humanitarian aspect may not be as supportive of enforcing laws that target illegal immigration because they are considering the fact that many people illegally enter the country in hopes of finding a better life, not with bad intentions. People who look at it from a logistical standpoint may be more supportive of these laws because they are acknowledging that people who do this are committing an illegal crime, and potentially taking jobs away from legal citizens. I think I have learned that it is important to look at this topic through both standpoints because the topic is not black and white.

3) I think poor living conditions and the ability to find a job, as the technology was advancing and industrialization was occurring, were two challenging aspects of living in the 19th century. I think American's were successful in handling these challenges because they began creating movements that dealt with cleaning up cities to make them more liveable, and we grew accustomed to technology being more of a part of our daily life.

4) The effort to build the Highline is related to progressivism because it took something that was deemed a "problem", and not only fixed it, but also made it into something beneficial to the community. The Highline is dissimilar to the progressive movement because it was funded by big businesses and progressivists didn't support big businesses.