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"Marching through the roadways of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of thousands of troops, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot suiter they may find. Forcing its way in to the important motion picture theaters, the mob ordered the management to turn on the house lamps and then ran along the aisles dragging Mexicans out of the seating. Streetcars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked from their seats, pushed in to the roadways and beaten with a sadistic frenzy." - Carey McWilliams, journalist.Even enemies will agree that the United States is a distinctive nation, for the reason that its culture has been developed almost totally by immigrants-people who have come to the country from other areas and carved their way into modern culture. Sometimes called a melting pot, sometimes a tossed salad, the nation has been shaped by all the is good and bad of the folks who live here. Unfortunately, history has taught that where there is immigration, there will be conflict. Just like any newly hitched couple will argue over whose family to invest the holidays with, so those coming from different countries and cultures will clash over which traditions can be built-into the new modern culture and those must be left out. One might think that after some 400 many years of interacting with these issues, the nation would have perfected the subject, but instead the contrary seems true. In the early times of 2016, Us citizens were employed in a heated up presidential plan fraught with rhetoric and fear within the role of immigrants in america. Prospects frequently spoke out against certain cultures, insisting they are dangerous to the American current economic climate or even national security.
