Immigration's Influence On American Culture

1: How has immigration helped influence American culture and how can we see it in American Politics today?
From the time when the settlers started calming land in America, to this day, the immigrants have had a huge influence on the American culture and in politics. Immigrants who suffered from poverty, war or even religious/political victimization in their home countries and only wanted to improve their living conditions, brought history and culture from the hole world with them, which have build the America as you know it today – as a nation of immigrants.
America’s fundamental values that create the special “American culture” is a combination of e.g. the saying “Hard work pays of” and the notion of “The American Dream”, which both means that in America
These statements have been the fuel for decades, and formed the language, the religions, the “American” style, food, art etc. These mish-mash high quality values result into a multi-cultural (but still American) culture, where people fight fore their rights. Since the constitution of the U.S.A. claimed every single inhabitants’ basic human rights, people have associated the land with freedom. Freedom to do what ever you want. To become rich and famous? Work hard enough, then it is no problem. To become the most powerful person in the whole world/the president of the U.S.A? No problem, if you can dream it you can do it. But an important saying says that “Time is money and money is time” which has important pros and cons and close relation to the topic. The cons are if you are a poor man in a rich mans world, you will