America—nationofimmigrantsandChina—nationofmultinationality.doc

America—nation of immigrants and China—nation of multinationality As what we have learned, the American is a new race of individuals of all nations, who acts upon new principles; he must entertain new ideas, and form new opinions, from this sentence, we can know that America is a nation of immigrants and liberty, where various immigrants have worked together to build a unique nation. to understand the nation of immigrants, we shall have a look at the past of America.? With the development of European capitalism, the Europeans began tm expand their range of power, which led to the discovery and immigrant of America. The first European immigrants in American history came from England and the Netherlands. Later, the desire to escape economic hardship, political oppression and religious persecution in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better education and life attracted an increasing number of immigrants of other counties flocking to American continent, where they established their American Dream----the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with equal opportunity for each according to ability, that is, Equality, Liberty and Freedom. It is the American Dream that forms the values of American people, which is quite different from Chinese community. First, obviously, the value of individualism is the social value of Americans, they tend to take risks and focus on the satisfaction of their own desire and interests through self-reliance, and they play high value on personality. Individualism has been influencing American immigrant society and has penetrated into every aspects of American life. And the second difference is the social conflicts. American have been enriched by the customs and ideas of immigrants, which put America into a dynamic position. Because of the various native cultural, political,religious, social patterns and attitudes brought by the immigrants, there are more and more cultural confli