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Chapter 3 Diversity

… Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

—Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (1886)

■ Objectives

1. Describe the total population characteristics of the United States as pre- sented in Census 2010.

2. Compare the population characteristics of the United States in 2000 and 2010.

3. Discuss the changes in points of origin of recent and past immigrants. 4. Discuss the meanings of terms related to immigration, such as citizen, refugee,

legal permanent resident, and naturalization. 5. Discuss the facets of poverty. 6. Describe poverty guidelines. 7. Analyze the cycle of poverty.

The opening images for this chapter are representative of the demographic and socioeconomic diversity that exists in countless communities in this nation. The first figure, 3–1, is that of the Statue of Liberty—a reminder that most of the

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people who live in the United States of America are the descendants of immi- grants or are themselves immigrants. Figures 3–2 and 3–3 depict places where people are able to purchase food and other necessities from their homelands—a Mexican market and other stores in San Juan Capistrano, California, and a shelf of canned goods in an Indian grocery store in Waltham, Massachusetts. Fig- ure 3–4 depicts the poverty in this land of plenty—a homeless woman, guard- ing her cart of possessions while rummaging through the trash on a street in Brooklyn, New York. An infinite number of images could be placed in this chapter’s opening. What comes to your mind when you think about the demo- graphic diversity in your home community? What are your images of poverty and homelessness?

 

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