Multicultural America : An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans

by Bayor, Ronald H.

• ISBN13: 9780313357862
• ISBN10: 0313357862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-22
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

One of the main reasons the United States has evolved so quickly and radically in the last 100 years is the large number of ethnically diverse immigrants that have become part of its population. People from every area of the world have come to America in an effort to realize their dreams of more opportunity and better lives, either for themselves... or for their children.This book collects information on 50 countries that have all contributed substantially to the diversity of the United States. The nations included range from Afghanistan to Vietnam, and covers large countries like China and India as well as tiny island nations like Trinidad and the Bahamas. Each essay explains what motivated these people to come to the United States; how they have affected U.S. culture and integrated into American society; relations between America and the immigrant sending nation; and the geography and history of each sending nation. This text also contains provides a chronology of major events in each previous country.