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The “Heroic” Arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas: The Notion that “all immigrants are Criminals.”
- What forces created this narrative, and for what purpose?
As a predominant master narrative among the Americans, South Italians’ immigration into the U.S, just like other people of color, sparked up fury portraying them as criminals. After Columbus “discovered” the Americas, he surprisingly found that millions of people were already living there. The press, in this case, the New York Times, was one of the major forces behind the narrative. The press’s purpose for creating the narrative was to further resist Italians’ settling in their country, insisting that they were to them as a pest without mitigations.
- Whose voices and experiences are missing from this narrative?
From this narrative, the immigrants’ voices and experiences are missing, making the narrative lack enough evidence to support it. A narrative may not necessarily be true.
- What are the implications of this narrative in the past and present?
The narrative’s implications in the past and present are that there arose a culture of discrimination resulting from discovering and witnessing a population of color settling in the U.S. The implication of racism occurred since immigration and is experienced presently. Killings of dark-skinned people continue to-date since the narrative was passed from one generation to the next since immigration.