I have read ‘How Did Jews Become White Folks?’ and found a quote that I think is worthy of attention. The author of the book mentions, ‘I grew up during the 1950s in the Euroethnic New York suburb of Valley Stream where Jews were simply one kind of white folks and where ethnicity meant little more to generation than food and family heritage’. (Brodkin 78). This statement can be compared to the situation in the United States that people are watching now, after more than one hundred years.
Nowadays, equality and non-discrimination are recognized as integral elements of human rights in America, so society strives for full justice among citizens. Through a vigorous struggle for civil liberties, the United States has become a nation of similar opportunities for whites and blacks alike (Brodkin 78). For example, there are no separate classrooms as there were in the past century, or people will not see restaurants where only white people can eat.
People tend to see the USA as one of the safest places for their ethnicity, where society is fighting for equal rights and opportunities for everyone. Equal rights for both whites and blacks are the reason why people migrate to America because they know that American society attempts to adhere to the principles of racial tolerance. Sometimes emergencies on the borders occur, for example, when officers scoff at migrants, but such crimes are punished and do not stay away from Biden’s Administration. Migrants strive to live a better life, and the United States of America helps them do it; then, migrants become a part of American society. Compared to the twentieth century, both black and white people have the same rights, Americans and migrants are equal, and our society is glad to see people striving to live a better life.
Work Cited
Brodkin, Karen Sacks. “How Did Jews Become White Folks?” Race, edited by Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek, Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 37-50.