Week 8: Discussion Question 2

The key advantage that European immigrants has over other minority groups was the availability, and access to, educational institutions.  Education presented itself as a key element on the twentieth century as modern machinery was replacing many blue collar jobs.  On the other hand it created many new white collar jobs that typically required an education.  With European immigrants have a far superior access to the United States educational resources they were best positioned to fill these jobs.


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