Old World Traits Transplanted
Publisher's Note, Foreword and Table of Contents
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The material in this volume was gathered by the Division of Treatment of Immigrant Heritages of Studies in Methods of Americanization.
Americanization in these studies has been considered as the union of native and foreign born in all the most fundamental relationships and activities of our national life. For Americanization is the uniting of the new with native-born Americans in fuller common understanding and appreciation to secure by means of individual and collective self-direction the highest welfare of all. Such Americanization should perpetuate no unchangeable political, domestic and economic régime delivered once an for all to the fathers, inclusive of the best wherever found. With all our rich heritages, Americanism will develop best through a mutual giving and taking of contributions from both newer and older Americans in the interest of the common weal. These studies have followed such an understanding of Americanization.
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Foreword
This volume is the result of studies in methods of Americanization prepared through funds furnished by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It arose out of the fact that constant applications were being made to the Corporation for contributions to the work of numerous agencies engaged in various forms of social activity intended to extend among the people of the United States the knowledge of their government and their obligations to it. The trustees felt that a study which should set forth, not theories of social betterment, but a description of the methods of the various agencies engaged in such work, would be of distinct value to the cause itself and to the public.
The outcome of the study is contained in eleven volumes on the following subjects: Schooling of the Immigrant; The Press; Adjustment of Homes and Family Life; Legal Protection and Correction; Health Standards and Care; Naturalization and Political Life; Industrial and Economic Amalgamation; Treatment of Immigrant Heritages; Neighborhood Agencies and Organization; Rural Developments; and Summary. The entire study has been carried out under the general direction of Mr. Allen T. Burns. Each
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Upon the invitation of the Carnegie Corporation a committee consisting of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Prof. John Graham Brooks, Dr. John M. Glenn, and Mr. John A Voll has acted in an advisory capacity to the director. An editorial committee consisting of Dr. Talcott Williams, Dr. Raymond Fosdick, and Dr. Edwin F. Gay has read and criticized the manuscripts. To both of these committees the trustees of the Carnegie Corporation are much indebted.
The purpose of the report is to give as clear a notion as possible of the methods of the agencies actually at work in this field and not to propose theories for dealing with the complicated questions involved.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
Immigrant
Heritages
Heritages
Defined
Illustrative
Documents
Resulting
Antagonisms
II Heritages and Human
Wishes
Four
Fundamental Wishes
Primitive
Regulation of Wishes
Adjustment to
Individualistic Society
III Immigrant Experiences
Change in
Attitudes
Loss of
Status
IV Immigrant Demoralization
Early Stages
Extreme Cases
V Immigrant Types
The Settler
The Colonist
The Political
Idealist
The
Allrightnick
The Caffone
The
Intellectual
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VI Immigrant
Institutions
First-Aid
Institutions
Mutual Aid
and Benefit Societies
Nationalistic
Organizations
Cultural
Institutions
VII The Immigrant Community
The Italians
The Chinese
The Japanese
The Mexicans
The Jews
The Poles
The Bohemians
The
Scandinavians
VIII Types of Community Influence
The Polish
Community
The Jewish
Community
The Italian
Community
IX Reconciliation of
the Heritages
Required in a
Democracy
Similarity of
Heritages
Psychology of
Assimilation
Tolerance
versus Suppression
Immigrant
Organization Valuable
Perpetuation
of Groups Impossible
