Synthèse Angalis Notion "Space and Exchanges"

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Synthèse sur la notion "space and exchanges", ou je parle de l'immigration vers les Etats Unis. Le plan est 1 : the historical importance of immigration for the US nation et 2 : how immigration has shaped the US culture.

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[...] In 1900 there were people, now they are 43 million people and it continues to grow. They live in border states as California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. But they have a low paying job in agriculture or services. The Latinos have a strong impact on the American society, because they created Spanglish, it's a language which mixes English and Spanish words. Those who speak Spanglish are the young Latinos, they speak English at school and Spanish at home so they are bilingual. [...]

[...] SYNTHESE “SPACE AND EXCHANGES” I am going to talk about the notion of "spaces and exchanges". A space can be a continuous area, a space that is free, available or unoccupied. An exchange is the act of giving or receiving something in substitution for something else. The word exchange can take different forms : Economic, Cultural, Movement of people. In this presentation, I will talk about immigration to the United States. We will answer the question What were the different steps of immigration in the USA? [...]

[...] Today 40% of Americans can trace back an ancester who came through E. I. It shows that America is a country of immigration, a country which has been shaped with immigration. Then we're going to see how immigration has shaped the US culture. First, immigration has an influence on cities, they are multicultural. A multicultural city is an ethnically diverse city with different cultures. San Francisco is a good example because there are different cultures as European, Asian and Hispanic who live in different districts. [...]

[...] She described the United States as a fairyland and had an ideal vision. But once she got to Ellis Island, she felt a lot of pressure from the other immigrants, she was scared to death and she described Ellis Island as a big crowded place where different languages were spoken. She filled in a questionnaire to know if she was literate. She underwent a quick medical examination by doctors. Moreover, the officers asked her about the questionnaire, and about money, and if she knew people in the US. [...]