How accurate are those broad brush strokes about a romantic immigrant experience?
I think so and I think that it’s romanticized by second generation Americans primarily. People in my situation. But the reality is was life was tough for them, across the boards, a- all the immigrants. Germans, Irish, Italians, a Japanese a- everybody had a difficult time of it and most of the people that came here found that the dreams of the streets lined with gold were a shimura. They were like the seven cities that everybody sought but could never find. Q: Let’s let’s talk about the jobs that many of the immigrants naturally found themselves steered towards as a laboring force. And this usually is large industries like mining, textiles and manufacturing. How was the immigrant labor force viewed? A: I think in many instances they weren’t valued at all. A, they were disposable even in a sense that we don’t dispose of a recyclable garbage in the sense that they weren’t recycled. They, if they were injured in a mining accident, there wasn’t insurance to take care of them. A- An interes
