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    'British Stiff Upper Lip'

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    In five pages this paper addresses how primarily British immigrants refuse cultural assimilation when relocating to the United States along with causes, reasons, and ramifications of this refusal examined. There are six bibliographic sources cited.

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    immigrants. Chances are that most of the indigenous population of the United States have come from immigrant beginnings. Many came originally to experience the freedom that America offered, whether that  freedom meant freedom to worship as they pleased, or the freedom from persecution. Among these immigrants were those from Europe and especially those from Great Britain. However, for many established  Americans, the influx of the newly arrived immigrant can be frustrating, especially when the new immigrant refuses to assimilate into American culture. What is even more maddening to some Americans  is the outright refusal of these British immigrants to accept the American culture as their own. This is not a problem particular to America. Australia has had its own bought  with immigration, boughts which have brought them into controversy with Amnesty International and with other United Nations organizations. What is interesting to note is that the concerns that they raise  about a loss of indigenous culture to the influx of outside and foreign cultures is the exact subject and nature of Californians concern and irritation toward their British immigrant neighbors.  Most of Americas famous people are descended from immigrants if they are not immigrants themselves. People, like Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger, who was Secretary of State were  Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also from England, was a silent movie star. Perhaps  their move to the United States has not been one in which they had any choice. Many Arab Americans arrive in the United States fleeing persecution these days, but originally,  dating back as far as the fifteenth century, Arabs arrived in America because they could make a better living on US shores than they could in their own homeland. This 

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