Political Cartoon/Reflection

People shouldn’t treat other people who are not like them like outcasts just because they speak a different language or have a different colored skin. In this political cartoon there are two Indians walking to some pilgrims and one Indian says, “They won’t learn the language, they’re not assimilating, they don’t look like us. I say—put ‘em back on the Mayflower!” This shows that the Indians are being compared to the Americans because the pilgrims came to the Indians’ native land and foreign immigrants come to the United States. Americans always complain and criticize about immigrants just because they don’t speak English well, they don’t assimilate, and look different while their forefathers did the same thing; travel to a different place to find a new start. Also, in the cartoon the Indians are carrying a turkey to the pilgrims. The pilgrims resemble the US and the Indians resemble immigrants because they want to work and people take advantage of them and give them labor. In the end, people are just people, regardless of anything besides what’s in the inside.