Did Immigrants Have To Leave Behind Their Cultures?

Part I of Essay
? No one forced the immigrants to migrate to the New World in the nineteenth century, or any other time. Even in special cases where they were forced, they should have not fallen prey to the weight of American culture. If their cultural and familial bonds were strong then ....

Part II of Essay
.... no time for the immigrants to focus on the family values that they had always know, yet they were in a new country now and they needed to learn to carry on traditions and cultures where they were the minority. On the other hand, these immigrants added their cultures to the American society; thus none were forced to give up their roots. If immigrants were not ready to start a new life then they should never have come to America. If they left behind their cultures, it is nobody’s fault but their own. Vecoli gave an example of Italian im ....