Extra Credit Museum Reflection

One caricature that I found disturbing was the caricature titled “A bunch of little problems.” This was disturbing to me because they showed babies of every ethnicity being burdens or problems to Americans. Americans definitely didn’t view other ethnicities well. They were especially harsh about the Irish. A lot of cartoons showed the Irish being rude and disrespectful. They also viewed Jewish men as people with large noses. They also showed African Americans as servants or less intelligent people. A lot of the cartoons were very rude.
A caricature that I thought was humorous and enjoyable was one of the poem/pictures. There was a small hand drawn picture that had four people of different ethnicities in a square. The reading of the picture went counter clockwise and all of the little cartoon drawings had a speech bubble. When you read all of the speech bubbles counter clockwise it created a poem. I thought is was funny that they wrote all of the bubbles in English but spelled it in different ways as if all of the different little characters spoke in different accents. There were about four little pictures on the wall that were all humorous and fun to read.
Although some of the caricatures were funny or offensive there were also ones that were pro immigration. There was a picture of a song called “It’s not about where you’re from It’s who you are.” That seemed like it was written for a peace movement. I enjoyed reading the lyrics and I agreed with them. It was one of the only things in the exhibit that was positive and showed that you should accept everyone for who they are despite what their ethnicity is. I really enjoyed this exhibit and I think everyone should visit.