The United States has a long history of effectively integrating newcomers and is proud to be a country that immigrants from all over the world founded. The assimilation of immigrants and their offspring have propelled the development and vigor of our culture and economy. Along with embracing and protecting American identity and citizenship in the armed services, they have improved everything from the nation's cuisine to its universities to its music and art. Immigrant families and their children can prosper and integrate into American culture due to the chances we have created. In the eighteenth century, "new immigrants" came from southern and eastern Europe, unlike the first wave of immigrants from the north and west.