After watching the video Becoming American and listening to the stories of how the casts families came to America, I realized I could never have made the trips. One person's grandmother came from I believe Ireland and spent 3 weeks in steerage. The immigrants of that time must have had a strong determination  to come here in search of a better life to be able to make those trips. Most of those people left their families behind, knowing that they would never see them again, "slamming the doors on the past, leaving no trace to their roots". The sacrifices they made amaze me.  Once they got here a lot of them faced such hostility but yet they persevered, not realizing the impacts that they were making on future generations and helping to make America, as Steven Colbert said "great".  I am not really sure when my families came to America but I am very thankful that they did so that eventually I was able to grow up in America. It scares me to think that is just one of my ancestors never made the trip or had something happen to them on the trip that it could have changed generations after them.

Dr.Oz stated in the beginning of the video "it's spectacular that you have the opportunity to marry cultures together because win you can see the world from different perspectives you are better off"and I    whole heartedly agree with him. I love the fact that America is built on a "melting pot".