Sociology 248 Ethnic Group Presentation

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Sociology 248 Ethnic Group Presentation

• European Protestants
• Jonathan Rousseau
• Regina Jones

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Background

• People of Britain
• Religious Freedom
• Protestants come to town
• Indians are moved
• Economy is constructed
• Four waves
• Civil War

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Contemporary Legacies

• White Stereotypes
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• Who holds the power
• Those who have more money have the power
• Majority always wins
• Power in numbers

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Economic

• Commercial base primary reason for colonization
• Skilled brought to America
• Mercantile capitalismstate-directed capitalism
  linked to English nationalism.

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Economic Contd

• Established racial hierarchy
• Advantage of being white
• Lower paid whites given public psychological
  advantages
• Power Control through direct control of
  critical positions

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Social aspect

• English-speaking immigrants came to America
  between 1629 and 1775 in four waves
• Puritans
• Royalists
• Quakers
• Borderlands

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Social Contd

• Over time, cultures fused to create dominant
  Anglo-Protestant culture of the colonies
• Support for English settlers suffering from
  poverty, but preserving English culture less
  abundant
• Anti-immigration or nativism surfaced in the
  1840s and 1850s

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Social Contd

• Impact of Anglo-Protestant values substantial in
  American society
• severely decreased last two centuries
• Fewer English immigrants by early 1900s
• Education
• Anglo conformity
• assimilation
• power-conflict

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Government and Politics

• Political legal institutions affecting all
  Americans shaped by English political heritage
• laws traditions inherited from the English
• concrete application by English immigrants and
  their descendants
• English Bill of Rights of 1639
• John Lock and French philosophers influence

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Government and Politics Contd

• English colonial government
• Charter Colonies
• Proprietary Colonies
• Royal Colonies
• British taxation creates distension in colonies,
  repealed by 1770
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation (1783 1789)
• Constitution of the United States

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Conflicts

• Initial survival aided by Native Americans
• Establishment of Industrial Capitalism
• 3,000 miles away from homeland
• Constant struggle to assimilate non-European
  immigrants to Anglo-Protestant values
• Establish a national government

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Pre WW II

• America off to fight in WW I
• Agriculture and low skilled jobs kept for
  minorities
• Womens Suffrage
• Racism
• Immigration legislation
• Great Depression

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Post WW II

• Thomas Dye and the study of top decision makers
  in America
• 4 thousand white men
• Minorities only have gender based jobs
• tokenism

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Major Issues

• Problems with rich black athletes
• To many rich blacks
• Media relations and minority
• White people everywhere

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Policy Proposal

• Issue for Anglo-Saxon Protestant Group Cultural
  decline of British ancestry, specifically in the
  realms of music, art, and literature
• Establish a federal grant program to fund music,
  art, and literature promotion initiatives
  specific to British ancestry.

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Policy Contd

• Relevant Theories Assimilation and Ethnic
  Pluralism, Salad Bowl
• Grant proposals and funding will be processed and
  regulated by the National Council on the Arts.
• Will Benefit Group European Jews
• Will Not Benefit Group Indigenous People

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Current Events

• History and Ancestry of European American
• Tom Brokaw
• the face of America