Block 3AC: Life as an Immigrant
After completing the exercises as a newly arrived immigrant, what do you think was the hardest part of the immigrant experience? Housing? Working Conditions? Budgeting? Why? Post your response by beginning of class tomorrow.
I think the hardest part of the immigrant experience was the budgeting. One must use the money they made to raise their family(housing, clothes, food, etc) while still trying to save money too. With the little amount of money the immigrants made, the balance between this would be hard to even life a descent life.
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ReplyDeleteThe hardest part of being an immigrant was budgeting. It was hard because you needed to buy everything you needed with the small amount of money your family earned. Buying just food and clothes isn't so bad, but when you need to buy beds, furniture, and coal it got harder because those things are more expensive. I think it would be easier once you have your furniture and other long terms items that you don't need to buy every month, but trying to get those things when you first arrive is very difficult to do.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part of being an immigrant was budgeting. It was very difficult because after paying for housing, they had very little money left to buy the things that are essential to live. Also, on top of all of that, they had to save some money as well.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part of being an immigrant was budgeting. Buying clothes was pretty easy because you just had to look for the cheapest attire. But when it came to buying furniture and food, there was a problem. Furniture was pretty expensive for our budget, and we still had to feed nine people. With the amount of money left after buying furniture, we didn't have enough money to buy food to feed nine people. The amount of food we got could have maybe fed five.
DeleteI think the hardest part was the budgeting, you have to have money for everyday things like food as well as other things like beds. So after food, rent and all the other stuff you have little money left to save for bigger things like sending kids to school.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part was the budgeting, because these immigrants were coming in big groups with multiple family members. They will have to first get a paying job that will allow them to be able to support all of the people. They have numerous things that they will need to use money for like rent, food, clothes, furniture ect. and during that time periods the money was not paid in large amounts.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of the immigration exercise was that we needed to house so many people in a very small space. The people from Bohemia had to fit 9 people in to three small rooms. That is barely comfortable for two people, imagine fitting nine people and two of them had disabilities. Housing was hard, and providing comfortable living space for those rooms was even harder. Housing was definitely one of the hardest if not the hardest of them all.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part was budgeting because you had to make sure you bought all the basic needs. Furniture, food, clothes, rent, and a heat source. This was even harder with the low wages that people made in this time period. This is why I think budgeting was the hardest part.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part about being an immigrant was budgeting. If was hard to get everything that was needed when everyone in the house man such a small wage. Lots of the money that was made in the month was spent towards the rent so it left us with even less money.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part was budgeting, with a small amount of money it was hard to buy all the needed things. The rent took a lot of the money but you still had to buy beds, a table, and somewhere to sit down. The food was hard because you had to feed a lot of kids food and you don't have very much money. Then you had to go buy clothing for your kids and more money was gone. So it was tough being an immigrant and having to budget at the time.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part was budgeting. You always had to know how much food to give everyone, and you needed to know your income to see if you needed to send your child to work or not. It is also the most important because you have to factor in the costs for a bed for your kids, aswell as clothes and other things for your house and such.
ReplyDeleteThe hardest part about being an immigrant was the budgeting by far. Since the immigrants were coming with nothing, they had to spend money on basic necessities like food and cloths, which in some cases it was hard to determine what everyone might need and how much. Another thing that made it difficult was the immigrants had very low wages so they couldnt buy nearly as much as they might have wanted.
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DeleteI think the most difficult part was the budgeting because the immigrants were coming over with absolutely nothing at all they had to purchase everything new. Considering most immigrants had poorly paying jobs it was difficult for them to afford everything they needed, like housewear, clothing, an abundance of food, etc. In most cases the children had to be sent to work because the family wouldn't be able to afford anything but rent.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part for my family was knowing what we needed and budgeting. We didn't know what we actually needed to buy as far as clothes and furniture and even food went, which I think is actually quite similar to how most immigrants felt when they came over to America from who knows where. Even though our family made a pretty honest living, we still would have taken three months to earn enough money to pay for everything we would need, and in the process of that we would have to decide what we would need to buy at what time so that in the end we didn't have fifteen mattresses and four kids dying of corn flake withdrawal.
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DeleteI think the hardest part was budgeting. Families had already spent all of there money to get over to america. They had to be able to know what was best for there family, and what things were essential for them to live. Immigrants also had poor jobs that they had to work long and hard hours.
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DeleteI believe the hardest part of being an immigrant was budgeting because it was hard to gauge between the necessities and the desires while still having needs that could not be filled, such as certain clothing items. The most difficult aspect of budgeting was food. I did not know how much was needed for the month to feed 9 people and did not know which food products to buy. Especially since I know certain food products around this time period were unsafe to eat.
ReplyDeleteThe hardest part was budgeting. We have to budget our money and know what food and closes and how to manage space.
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