Gangs Of New York Movie Analysis

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Gang of New York holds native-born Americans higher than the Foreign-born, even though during the movie the foreigners could out way the natives in New York by numbers. Throughout the movie, there isn’t a hesitation at all to call any foreigners disrespectful names and humiliating them. Also, the movie took place around the civil war, so throughout the movie, one could see the recruiters badgering not only natives, but also the foreign, saying things like “”_____. There were many other factors that demoralized foreigners, wheatear its being hit by rocks, watching disrespectful plays, not being aloud to step in church, preforming demining jobs, etc. One important take is from what Bill talked about to Amsterdam, on how he’s able to stay dominant …show more content…
The article touched on the draft orders for who’s considered a candidate by stating “The government goes house to house, enrolling all men aged 20-35 (and unmarried men aged 35-45), then held a lottery to choose from the pool.” In addition, it also talked about the method to allow one to pardon themselves from the draft if they have three hundred dollars. Sadly, during that time, having that much money was slim because of thievery and low amount of people who could afford it. Thanks to the article, it helped explain the more of the reasoning for the riots, which is due to the conflict of the state workers losing their immunity towards the draft. In retaliation services like the fire department went around town setting things on fire, smashing windows, stoning people, etc. With the riots, people where in a frenzy because they could no longer protect themselves from the draft and in retaliation they took it out on other people, weather they were innocent, poor, or favorably rich enough to buy themselves out. To clear out the situation, soldiers where deployed to deal with the rioters and eventually they where worn out and for the time being calmed