Реферат: Immigrant Communities A Look At 4

other for a few reasons. For one, although they may have been

from different countries, they had a shared past and common

origins. Also, it was a way of protecting themselves from

outside persecution.

The similarities between the four groups seem to be quite

obvious, yet immigrant groups can be different even in the things

they have in common. Although both Irish and Jewish immigrants

worked in factories, the Jewish were more involved in the

clothing and textile industry. Women from Italian and German

backgrounds stayed at home and took care of their families, but

Italian women were much more devoutly religious than the Germans.

Irish and German immigrants were more involved in politics and

unions than Italians or Jews, and were more likely to frequent

taverns and public houses. The main difference between all of

these immigrant groups is the location of their communities.

Some groups live in the same city, but their neighborhoods were

separate from each other. Immigrants came from different

countries and cultures and built their own communities in their

own ways.