Travis A. Tewell
Sociology
January 31, 2014
Week 4
Mrs. Clay
Postville, Iowa Today in class, Mrs. Clay was showing us a video about culture change in Postville, Iowa. While watching the video I was noticing that most of the population was made up for German or Norwegian folks. But in 1987 things started to change for this little town. Instead of just the German or Norwegian people, they were in-golfed by Hasidic Jewish people. At the first sight of these changes the local population was upset because these new comers were not interested in taking part of the festivities of even by the type of neighbor which insisted of one stopping by and hanging out more often than an occasional time. Once these Hasidic Jews entered into the town of postville, they started to change the way of life for the local postville people. But in the process of doing so they were able to provide more jobs for people as well as a change in their economic situation. Postville was slowly turning into a worthless piece of development. Thanks to the Jews who started to make a name for postville with their production of farming getting bigger caused more visitors to come which eventually led to more families to live. With the jewish community making the economic issues better created another change in the culture diversity of Postville, Iowa. The next type of families that came is the Mexican culture. When the local community of postville consisted of Germans, Norwegians, and Jews the new Mexican style of people came across as scary people and one of criminal look to them. The first locals are becoming a new evolution with this diversity and they are still getting used to the change. Some things that the video did not show is that in 2008 all these cultural interactions for the economy caused there to be talk about violations for child labor laws and immigration issues. For