1. American citizenship
   1. nation of immigrants
   2. lack of national-historical basis
   3. Naturalization Oath Ceremony
      1. you take an oath and declare that you will support and defend the American Constitution
      2. the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment
2. The country of immigrants
   1. 1500-1600
      1. English
         1. Jamestown, Virginia
      2. Spaniards
         1. California, Florida
      3. set up trading posts
      4. look for gold and wealth
   2. 1600-1800
      1. 1840-60
         1. wave of immigrants
         2. 10 million people
      2. "the old immigration"
         1. Ireland
            1. escape starvation
         2. 1852-54
            1. Germans
      3. West Coast
         1. Chinese
   3. 1900-today
      1. Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia
      2. ethnic neighbours
      3. half million
         1. each year
         2. Asia, Mexico, Latin America
3. Native Americans
   1. not protected
   2. reservations
   3. Wounded Knee Massacre
4. Multiculturalism
   1. "melting pot"
      1. mixing of cultures and traditions should result in a new quality
   2. two ethnic communities
      1. not integrated
      2. Blacks
      3. Hispanics
   3. African-Americans
      1. slavery in the South
      2. racial discrimination
      3. Jim Crow laws
         1. the blacks were not allowed to enter the restaurants or use toilets for whites
      4. 1950s
         1. Civil Right Movement
         2. Martin Luther King
      5. unemployment and poverty
   4. Hispanics
      1. Latin America
   5. the Asian minority
      1. highest educational attainmeent
      2. highest household income
5. The American Dream
   1. self-made people, millionaires or billionaires that made their fortunes from scratch
   2. political and economic freedom
   3. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
      1. Barack Obama
   4. not a welfare state
   5. country of high social inequalities
   6. shrinking of the middle class
6. Crime level
   1. access to guns
      1. Second Amendment
   2. The National Rifle Association of America
      1. NRA
      2. blocks any initiatives to limit an access to guns
   3. gun culture
      1. Columbine School Massacre
         1. 1999
7. Volunteering
   1. 27%