A Celebration of Immigrant Heritage Month
Posted on Jun 14, 2021 by Lucas Brasil
If you didn’t already know, June is officially Immigrant Heritage Month. It’s an entire 30 days dedicated to being proud of your heritage and celebrating what it means to have so many cultures living and working together in the melting pot that is the United States.
Immigrant Heritage Month was officially declared in 2014 after an initiative from the I Am An Immigrant foundation. It’s designed to encourage immigrants, refugees, and their families to celebrate their backgrounds and explore how their cultures helped shape the U.S. into what it is today. Immigration and diversity are essential parts of the United States, and they deserve to be celebrated.
Immigrants Help Shape America
America is known as The Melting Pot. It’s an entire country built by immigrants from all over the world.
While the times of mass immigration through Ellis Island are long in the past, immigrants are still coming to America in search of opportunity. According to research, 13.7% of the entire U.S. population is made up of foreign-born immigrants, almost triple what it was in 1970.
Immigrants also make up a significant part of the country’s economy, adding over $2 trillion to the U.S. GDP and paying almost $500 billion in local, state, and federal taxes.
Besides being a major part of the economy, immigrants have lent their cultures to the United States for generations, helping to make the country what it is today—and that’s something that deserves celebration.
Celebrate with Your Family Abroad
The impact of immigrants is undeniable, but it’s not always easy for immigrant families to celebrate such a worthy cause together. Many, if not most, immigrant families are scattered all over the world, which makes it difficult to stay connected.
Luckily, eTopUpOnline helps immigrant families keep in touch with a mobile top-up worldwide. Whether you want to buy minutes and data for your own phone or send them to family members abroad, you can send an international mobile recharge online in four easy steps:
- Select the country
- Enter the phone number of the phone you want to recharge
- Select your top-up amount
- Complete the payment
An eTopUpOnline mobile recharge can be sent to over 100 countries around the world, making it easy to always stay connected no matter where your family members live. You can also choose from major international carriers like Claro, AT&T, Flow, Movistar, Vodafone, Natcom or Digicel online top-up.
This Immigrant Heritage Month, celebrate with the ones you love and be proud of what makes you and your family unique. Immigrants are an essential part of the United States, and their dedication, sacrifices, and hardships deserve to be celebrated. Be proud of who you are and thank those who helped make you that way.