Faces of America

I thought that the video that we watched on the famous people in america that had migrated to the United states was very interesting. This video got me interested in where my family is from. Not only where each side of my family is from but why my relatives migrated here in the first place. As it is right now i honestly have no idea were my family is from. I don't even know where my Dad's side of the family lived before they came to Huntsville. I learned from the video that just because immigrants didn't migrate in recent years doesn't mean that they just originated in America. This is because it is entirely impossible. The united states is unique in that it is full of all sorts of races from many different places. Even the "Native Americans" did not  start out in America. 

Nation of Immigrants 

America is Unique in that it is full of many different races. It is also unique in that every family that is in the united states has some sort of story on why their family or just them ended up in America. This is something very special because this means that whoever the person is in their family that originally migrated to America wanted to benefit themselves. This means that we are a nation of Immigrants that have ambition for themselves. People came to America because the conditions here are better than where they originated from. This is why i believe that America is as successful for its age as it is. It is because People are interested in succeeding and making something of themselves.        

Henry ford was born by William and Mary Ford on July 30, 1863. Henry had five brothers and sisters. As a young boy Henry was always interested in Mechanical things, things that he could take apart and put back together. When Henry was sixteen he left the house to become an apprentice of a Machanic. HE remained under apprenticeship of this mechanic for three years. After his apprenticship he spent his time overhauling and reparing his fathers farm implemints and he repaired steam engiens. In 1888 he married Clara Bryant, at this point Henry was running a sawmill to support he and his wife. In 1891 Henry became an engioneer with Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. After he got this job his career really took off. He became the Cheif engioneer in 1893, this gave him plenty of funds and free time to his design experiments. He mainly eperimented with internal cumbustion engienes much like you would find in a car.

In 1896 Henry created his first car, this what what was refered to as the quadcycle. It had two speeds and no reverse. After two failed attemts at creating an automobile company the third one finally suceeded. He created Ford and the first automobile he created that was mass produced was the Model t. This car was the beginning to smething that became the largest automobile company in the world by 1926. I find ford to be the most succesful automobile company in the world because of how long they have remained in buisness and the succes they have had, i also admire the fact that they never have had to have any significant bail out that would have caused them to go out of buisness other wise. I think that Henry Ford was one of the most succesful men in the world. One thing that i did not discover in my research but i have heard is that he hated Jews for no reason, i do not admire this aspect of him but most everything else i find very impressive.

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http://www.aics.org/mascot/truth.html

 

http://theweek.com/article/index/220370/racist-navajo-attire-and-7-other-urban-outfitters-controversies

 

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-misrepresenting-and-abusing-native-american-and-indigenous-culture

 

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For many many years, the conflict between the Native Americans and American sports teams and product producers has been a big deal. Native Americans find it offensive to associate their name with almost anything. Now this is not true for all Native Americans, some find it as an honor that people would use their culture and race as a way to get people to buy their products. Many of these products that there are controversies over are cars, such as the jeep Grand Cherokee. Another product that there are disputes over are foods and drinks, for example Crazy Horse Malt Liquor. Also Many Native Americans find it offensive when people design a clothing line based off of them, such as Urban Outfitters has done with their Navajo line.

                The Jeep Grand Cherokee is an suv that has been in America for decades. It has always been known as a rugged, off road capable car. While this car is very popular among Americans it is not as popular with the Native Americans. They find it offensive that people would use their Indian name and name a car after it. Indians are known for being very resourceful and tough themselves, they could move their tribes all over the place and tough it out in any kind of condition. I believe that this is what jeep was going for when they decided to name the nicest SUV. I believe it should be taken as a complement but the Native Americans take offence to it. I also see where the Native Americans are coming from with the way they have reacted to the naming of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. You would never see a car manufacturer going and coming up with a name for their tough SUV and naming it The Great African American.  That would be taken very offensively throughout the nation and there is no way that the car would ever be produced.

                Another thing that has caused an uproar in Native American communities is the way that tobacco and alchahol  companies name their products after Native Americans. Examples of this are Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Chewing tobacco named after native Americans. This has not been taken lightly among the Native American communities. I can Understand this because it is almost like they are taking the Native American race and using them as a way to get people to buy their alchohal. Its like these companies think because they put an Indian on their bottle or bag that people will want to buy it. No alchohal company would put an important person in the History of African Americans such as Martin Luther King on their bottle because that would cause a huge uproar. It would never even get to the point of production of the product because somebody would stop it because it would offend many People.

                Clothing of Native Americans is very recognizable, it was a certain style that everyone can spot. The Clothing Company of Urban Outfitters Opened up a Navajo line. In this line of clothing of theirs everything  is molded after their interpretation of the Navajo Indians. This has just recently been a problem because native Americans don’t like the fact that people would try to model clothes after them, especially in the way that they were doing this because the clothes didn’t actually look like Indian clothes. There are two sides to this argument. Many people find it to be very flattering that Americans would try to duplicate a style of clothing that is so specific to the Indians. On the other hand Many Indians find it to be an insult.

                This will always be a conflict because People are not worried about upsetting the Indians as long as slapping a picture on the side of a bottle will get people to buy their drinks or their clothes. You would not find Americans using any other race as a product emblem. This is because The Indians opinions is something that has never been taken very seriously. Just like when America was colonized Indians were just kicked off of their land their opinion was not taken into consideration.  Until this conflict is largely addressed people will continue to offend the Native Americans in this same way.