Ethnicities Around the Hull House

By looking at some of these maps one can see how the many different ethnicities are displayed and particularly why.  Something that stuck out at me was how the Italians dominated in large clusters.  No other ethnicity seems to be closer together.  Italians usually have fairly large families, even by today's standard.  I have couple Italian friends and their families are similar to the family from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.  Like in the movie, they always are working together, eating together, always spending leisurely time together, etc.  Also, these families always have a lot of kids and many relatives.  I believe that Italians practice the same kind of relationships within their own family.  One of the reasons that I think that Italians have families like they do is because by moving to America, they had no one to depend on but themselves.  By speaking a different language, eating different foods, or practicing another religion its hard to blend with other cultures right away.  It's simple to see why they lived together the way that they did.  

On the second map its interesting to see how that there are just about the same amount of English-speaking residents as foreigners.  But on the first map there is hardly any English-speaking residents compared to the amount of foreigners.  What I think the Hull house helped achieve was the integration of the many ethnicities.  By all the different people seeking the same necessities, it was easy access for them.

A group of people that are close together as one can see from the map are the Russians and Poles.   These two groups of people are similar in the fact that a good many of them are Jewish.  Also, these two countries present a strong slavic background.