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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It was never ok. It's always about the class of people. Those guys in 1828 weren't commoners. They were usually sons of wealthy merchants getting on that boat. Or be an unmarried women going to make babies.
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This is a puzzling statement at best. Coming to the New World was not a vacation or an Old Boys' Club. It was hard. It was a huge sacrifice. It was a dream of something better - hope. It was (primarily) for those that wanted a new life.
Immigration has never been about the privileged. The privileged don't NEED to pack up and start a new life half way around the world. It has
always been about seeking a better life.
This was true in the 1700s, the 1800s, the 1900s, and it is true today.
The reason all the immigrants were white in the 17 and 1800s is because the only boats coming over were coming from European countries (other than the ones from Africa, which is another story altogether).
(This is not meant as some kind of proof, just an anecdotal story, but...) my mother saved for a year, and gave up her life, her family and her friends, for the privilege of coming to Canada with absolutely nothing. The VAST majority of all of those that have come to NA from everywhere, in every century, came with nothing or very little. Including whites.