Sentences with phrase «various immigrant groups»

Viewed as a tool for assimilating the various immigrant groups then entering the United States, they were overtly used to teach explicitly Christian and, at least implicitly, Protestant, values.

It was the success ideal that lured the various immigrant groups into the cultural patterns and inner controls that have gradually weakened the barriers between them and older Americans.

Not exact matches

A daughter to Cuban immigrants, Pestana is involved in various firm initiatives focused on diversity and is currently the Diversity & Inclusion Champion for the NY Banking and Capital Market Group.

This group, which gets funding from the Council to provide various services to immigrants (literacy classes, «outreach» on rights, etc.), controversially makes its clients attend organizational and advocacy meetings as a condition of receiving services.

Far weirder are Cuomo's escalating claims of figurative membership in various other groups, including his repeated come - at - me - bro demands that immigration officials seeking to deport undocumented immigrants should start with him because he's descended from immigrants.

And Latinos are our least - advantaged major immigrant group; of course we would expect East Asians and South Asians to do better on various measures, as they do markedly on education, and they do.

Perhaps our problem is the number of students, compared with those in Europe, who come from immigrant and non-English-speaking homes and the number who come from minority groups still suffering the consequences of various kinds of deprivation.

Facing the issue of cultural diversity, inclusion in Canada seems more effective than in the United States, especially in terms of bridging the gap among various student groups (e.g., native students and immigrant students).

As we look back over time, our negative reactions to various European immigrant groups (the Irish, Italians, Jews, Asians, and Eastern Europeans), our history of racism, our willingness to intern the Japanese during WW II, all suggest less than open attitudes.

In the four lot parcel, seven community groups serving children with special needs, immigrant children and their families, people in drug treatment programs, as well as individual family gardeners come together — spanning various demographics, united by a common love of gardening — to grow food, congregate and avail themselves of much need respite in planted space.

Tutor various ethnic backgrounds and social groups, including students from refugee camps, immigrants, visiting scholars, au pairs, and new citizens.