By class, religion…

Most likely Ashkenazi  

 Ideas for project: 

2. History: Whose stories are told?

– Describe the most important events in your immigrant group’s history, how those events influenced change, etc.

Immigrated from Germany in WW II because of the Holocaust. They came here because they were being prosecuted because of their religion and how they looked and acted. Came to America so they would be safe, and to save the lives of their families.

3. Famous People: Who influenced others?

– Describe leaders, their accomplishments, contributions and/or sacrifices, as well as how they influenced change.

-Abraham Landau

-  Anne Frank

- Eli Wisel

-Imre Kertész (1929 –) Hungarian Author

4. Religion: What are the dominant faiths?

– Describe which religions play an important role in your immigrant group’s history in America and what that role is.

Religious Categories- Ashkenazi (Russia, Poland, Germany….)

                                     -Sephardic (Portugal, Italy)

Types of Judaism- Orthodox

-          Conservative

-          Liberal

-          Kabala

5. Rituals: What do people practice?

– Describe popular ceremonies, folktales, stories and myths, rituals for births, coming of age, marriage, and death, and the values they are based on.

-          Bar/Bat Mitzvah’s

-          Yiska Services (mourning)

-          Jewish Holidays (High Holidays, such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)

6. Music: What do people listen to?

– Describe popular music, traditional music, cultural instruments, dances, music festivals, etc. for your immigrant group.

7. Food: What do people eat?

– Describe popular foods, indigenous ingredients, cultural habits among meals, recipes, etc. for your immigrant group.

-          Borscht

-          Herring

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8. Geography: Where do people live?

– Describe where individuals and groups from your immigrant group moved to when they came to America. Explain how geography in America shaped their identity.

Germany, Poland, Russia…

9. Language: What do people say?

– Describe the native language of your immigrant group with examples and explain how, or if, the language changed as a result of assimilation across generations.

German and Hebrew-

10. Art: How do they express culture?

– Describe forms of artistic expression (music, painting, sculpture, murals, etc.) from your immigrant group, and explain how their art shapes or reflects issues and their shared experiences.

11. Women: What are women’s lives like?

– Describe famous women, women’s role in your immigrant group’s history, gender roles and more.

12. Family History: Where did they come from?

– Construct an imaginary family tree with a brief biography of select individuals (10 total) describing their immigrant experiences either coming to or adjusting to America.

13. Images: Show your group!

– Show images of each of the topics above, share your own scanned pictures or provide your own artwork describing your immigrant group, etc.

-          http://img.allposters.com/6/LRG/30/3074/C3VDF00Z.jpg

-          http://ayannanahmias.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ellis-island-immigrants.jpg

-          http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk/images/bau/97808160/9780816056842/0/0/plain/jewish-immigrants.jpg

-          http://www.lib.umassd.edu/Archives/jewishtour/images/HolocaustMemorial.jpg (Abrahm Landau

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14. Current Issues: Connect to themes learned…

– Explain how current events in recent history (the last 50 years or so) connect to the experiences of your immigrant group.

15. Questions: What do you wonder?

– Ask questions concerning your thoughts on the past, present or future of your immigrant group, it’s place in the world, it’s ability to stay the same or change, etc.

Past - Why did they come to America, and not places like Italy or Mexico?

-          Present- Where are all of these immigrants family now? Did they all end up together?

-          Future- How long will all of these people stay here? Would they ever go back to live where they came from?

16. The Future: What do you envision?

– Based on your personal knowledge and research of your immigrant group, how do you see it changing? Make a prediction of your group’s history in the next 25, 50 and 100 years.

17. Resources: Where did you get your info?

– If a person, provide their name, explain their relationship to you and what information they provided.

– If a book, website, or picture, provide the name, a link (if possible) and the information provided. (in MLA format)

Quotes:

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

It's not the fault of the parrot, but of the one who teaches him to talk.

Your true enemy lives in your own house.

Better to eat beans in peace than to eat meat in distress.

History:

Once the site of the impressive ancient Mayan civilization, Guatemala was conquered by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524 and became a republic in 1839 after the United Provinces of Central America collapsed. From 1898 to 1920, dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera ran the country, and from 1931 to 1944, Gen. Jorge Ubico Castaneda served as strongman.

Religion:

49% is Catholic, 48% Protestant, 2% Mayan Religions and 1% Other.

“The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our”
---Nelson Mandela

“If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.”          
---Alan Paton


http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/south_africa/

This quotes inspired me “the Japanese have a great saying: when the student is ready, the Buddha will appear”. This quote was done by Mort Meyersan.  Another quote I like is “when a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, “what is the best language to do business? “The man responded: “My customer language”. This quote is done by Leonard l. Sweet.

When Japanese people come to America they begin to listen to classic western music, Japanese rock and folk music. Classic western music has a strong presence in Japan and it one of the most important markets for classical music. There are four kind of folk music (min’yo): work songs, religious song (such as Sato Kagura, a form of shintoist music)Toru Takemitsu help write some classical music.

1. quotes

-“Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.” Ajahn Chah

-“At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.” Proverb

-“Don't eat something sour when you could eat something sweet.” Proverb

2. history

Major Thai immigration into America began during the 1960s during the Vietnam War. Thais became more aware of the possibility for immigration to the United States. By the 1970s, 5,000 Thais came to America, with an average of three women to every one man. Many immigrants were wives of men in the U.S. Air Force who had either been stationed in Thailand or had spent their vacations there while on active duty in Southeast Asia, while others included doctors, nurses, and business entrepreneurs.

During the 1980s, Thais came to the United States at an average rate of 6,500 every year. Many came with student or temporary visitor visas. The major draw to the United States was the wide variety of opportunities and higher wages. However, unlike people from other countries in Indochina, none of the immigrants were forced to America as refugees.

The population of Thai descendants is about 210,000, or about 0.5% of America’s population. The largest concentration of Thai immigrants can be found in Los Angeles and New York City. However, Thais own banks, gas stations, beauty parlors, travel agencies, grocery stores, and restaurants, and this expansion and exploration into the English language and American culture has caused the population to spread through the United States. New York has a Thai population of 6,230, mostly located in New York City. Texas also has seen a growth, with 5,816.

3. famous people

Chang and Eng Bunker-Known for being conjoined twins; basis for the term Siamese Twins

Tamarine Tanasugarn-Professional tennis playerAssistant

Ladda Tammy Duckworth-Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Porntip "Bui" Nakhirunkanok-Thai beauty queen

Michael Chaturantabut-Actor, best known for the role of the Blue Power Ranger

Brenda Song-American actress, singer, and model

Tiger Woods-Professional golf player

4. religion

About 94.7% of Thais are Buddhists of the Theravada tradition. Muslims are the second largest religious group in Thailand at 4.6%. Thailand's southern provinces, including Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and part of Songkhla have dominant Muslim populations, consisting of both ethnic Thai and Malay. Muslims usually live in separate communities from non-Muslims.

5. rituals

a couple traditionally become engaged during a ceremony known as thong mun. This is the giving of gold by the prospective groom to his fiancee. Parents, friends and relatives will attend this ceremony. Thai marriage at large and definitely the ceremony of traditional Thai wedding interlinked with an ancient tradition called sinsod. Sinsod initially happened to ensure that one's daughter does not marry below her potential standing in life.

6. music

The earliest Thai ensembles were called piphat, which included woodwind and percussion instruments. This was first used to accompany the theater. Another ensemble type, khruang sai, added string instruments, while mahori further added melodic percussion instruments.

By the 1930s, however, Western classical music, show-tunes, jazz and tango were popular. Soon, jazz grew to dominate Thai popular music, and Khru Eua Sunthornsanan soon set up the first Thai jazz band. The music he soon helped to invent along with influential band Suntharaporn was called pleng Thai sakorn, which incorporated Thai melodies with Western classical music. This music continued to evolve into luk grung, a romantic music that was popular with the upper-class.

String pop took over mainstream listeners in Thailand in the 90s, and bubblegum pop stars like Tata Young and Asanee & Wasan became best-sellers. Simultaneously, Britpop influenced alternative rock artists like Modern Dog became popular.

7. food

With their Buddhist background, Thai people shunned the use of large animals in big chunks. Big cuts of meat were shredded and laced with herbs and spices. Traditional Thai cooking methods were stewing, baking and grilling. Chinese influences saw the introduction of frying, stir frying and deep-frying. Culinary influences from the 17th century onwards included Portuguese, Dutch, French and Japanese. Chillies were introduced to Thai cooking during the late 1600s by Portuguese missionaries who had gained a taste for them while serving in South America.

8. geography

Los Angeles, California has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand. Roughly 66% percent of all Thai Americans live in Los Angeles. (See history)

9. language

Thai is the “mother tongue” of people from Thailand, and is the official language of the country.

10. art

Tribal musical instruments feature the rare and unusual musical instruments of the hill tribes in northern Thailand with briefs on their history, culture and the role of music in their lives.

Also a popular Thai form of art is puppets and shadow puppets. There are two types of the Nang, the Nang Talung and the Nang Yai. The Nang Talung is played with leather puppets, each representing a separate character, about 50 centimeters high. They usually have a movable, jointed arm controlled by a string. The Nang Yai are large, decorated scenes and characters measuring around two meters high and a meter wide. Unlike the Nang Talung, they do not have jointed arms, but the themes and styles remain the same. Both types are used to present stories to the community and are widely recognized throughout Thailand.

11. women

Women in Thailand enjoy much more freedom than women in other parts of the world. Their freedom is measured in ways such as having the ability to wear clothes which are comfortable for a tropical climate and do not have to be covered for no one to see.They are allowed to work outside the house in commercial activities like street vending or market work, and to go where they want, not having to be with men.

Thailand remains a largely agricultural society, and equality toward all farmers means that discrimination against women makes little sense. Both sexes have important roles to play in this society, and there must be enough food for the family for the whole year as well as enough to care for children and the elderly. Having surplus means having the chance to donate it to the monks in order to have stronger chances in good reincarnation

12. family history

13. images

http://www.cracked.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tiger-woods3.jpg

http://blstb.msn.com/i/35/41B1D956378F7AFB24AEE3ADB326.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PhXxRt4ddg4/SXYMTba30YI/AAAAAAAAAOA/tbYtRipkbyc/s400/brenda-song18.jpg

http://www.un.org/advocates/2000/photos/bui.jpg

http://www.completemartialarts.com/whoswho/competitors/images/lightspeedchat.JPG

14. current issues

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040200843.html

15. questions

-Are Thai immigrants happy here?

-How do they fee at most American’s ignorance to call them Chinese or just Asian as opposed to Thai?

-Will the amount of Thai-Americans grow or lessen in upcoming years?

16. the future

25-More and more Thais will come to America, raising the percentage of Thai-Americans and influence they have in America.

50-An over abundance of Thais in America will make Thai people immigrate to other countries.

100-Thai people will be sick of America and want to move back to Thailand, but will not be able to due to the fact that China will have taken over all of Asia.

17. resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_American, http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Sr-Z/Thai-Americans.html

http://thailand-usa.com/statistics/thai-american-facts-and-information-thais-in-america-americans-in-thailand/

http://www.into-asia.com/thai_language/phrases/proverbs.php

http://www.thaiculturalcenter.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_music

http://www.thai-la.com/links.html

A lot of the Japanese American and American that lives in California like eating sushi even though it has raw fish. The California roll (using avocado instead of raw fish and turning the sushi inside out so the seaweed is on the inside) is one of them, though it is indeed elegant when produced by a trained sushi chef. There are many Japanese cooks work in restaurant that works all over the United States. Good Japanese cooking is subtle and takes a long time to master. Sushi chefs are particularly highly trained and are skilled at avoiding health issues when dealing with raw seafood.

Ramen: Squiggly yellow flour noodles served in a soup base and covered with bite-sized pieces of meats or vegetables. Ramen is available in American food markets in quick-cook form with packaged soup base or as a soup in a cup instant meal.

Tonkatsu: Reflecting western influence, a pork (or sometimes chicken) cutlet covered in the thick, crunchy Japanese breadcrumbs called panko then deep-fried. Served with a ketchup-like sauce or a curry sauce over white rice.

History

In1994, Mazie K. Hirono becomes the first Japanese immigrant elected state lieutenant governor.

In 1996, A. Wallace Tashima becomes the first Japanese American appointed to the United States court of appeal, in the Ninth circuit.

In 2000, Norman Y. Mineta becomes the first Asian American appointed to the U.S. Cabinet, working as Commerce Secretary (2000-2001) and Transportation Secretary (2001-2006).

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