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'''Immigrant Community''' I know from first hand experience how strong community ties can be among new immigrants. My family is from Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Almost everyone who lives there was born in Poland, or is of Polish descent. People from Poland flock to Port Richmond because they know there is a community of people there who have gone through the immigration process and are willing to help them. The community is extremely important to Port Richmond residents. I have family members who have arrived in America in recent years. If it was not for the support of family and community, they would have had a hard time assimilating. –Andrew B | '''Immigrant Community''' I know from first hand experience how strong community ties can be among new immigrants. My family is from Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Almost everyone who lives there was born in Poland, or is of Polish descent. People from Poland flock to Port Richmond because they know there is a community of people there who have gone through the immigration process and are willing to help them. The community is extremely important to Port Richmond residents. I have family members who have arrived in America in recent years. If it was not for the support of family and community, they would have had a hard time assimilating. –Andrew B | ||
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| + | '''Differences''' In regard to two of Stephen's questions, I thought that Mintz and Kellogg paint a pretty good picture of the Northeastern American working-class family condition. However, they make it clear that native-born American families and immigrant families were very different on many fronts,including family roles, housing arrangements, family patterns, household dynamics and certain views on whether or not a woman and child should work. Since about a third of Homestead's population was foreign-born, it is difficult to say whether Homestead was a typical working-class town. Perhaps the interactions between all the groups differed from other towns, or they affected the families more or less than other places. Anyways, this class with such a diverse group of people in it make it even harder to categorize or define than the American Middle-class -- Celia | ||
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