Winter is the last season in a year among the four. It is like a immaculate bride who has a beautiful white dress on her. But to me, winter just like a vicious witch who put magic on me and made me had a bad start in USA. My family immigrated during the winter and it brought changes in my life and my personality. It is a sign of starting new. In this new place, I have enjoyed a certain level of comfort like making new friends and seeing new things. But, every day, I still had to grapple with language difficulties, cultural gaps, and day-to-day life issues. Especially about associating with people, social aspect became one of the most challenging thing I have to conquer and it was a torturous memories. Being an immigrant teaches me deeply…
Complainant reasserts her allegations. Complainant acknowledges that Martinez did not actually say a racial slur; however Complainant states that Martinez’s behavior (shaking his finger and interrupting her) are kinds of behaviors that people use against African-American to discredit and to belittle them. Complainant cites that Martinez’s behavior are “racial microaggressions” which are brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities and denigrating messages sent to people of color.…
The subject for my interview is a female immigrant of the 1.5 generation. According to Feliciano (2016), as a 1.5 generation immigrant my respondent was born in another country but migrated as a child. For confidently purposes, my respondent will be referred to by the pseudonym Linda. Linda’s immigration story highlights a selective assimilation process evident through her learning of he English language and economic advancement, yet a failure in structural, marital, and identification assimilation accounted for by a negative context of reception and high vulnerability.…
As a recent immigrant myself I see a great value in the programs like cultural orientation for the new members of our community. Ascentria provides services for people of various cultural and social backgrounds. Lack of knowledge about the peculiarities of American culture, social norms as well as the ways this society functions can not only put the newcomers in uncomfortable situations, but also compromise their safety and security. I believe it is critical to provide the people who are to make this country their new home with all the necessary information, which would help their adaptation and integration into the American society.…
there are a multitude of issues surrounding unauthorized immigrants who stay in the United States. Often times, the media likes to glorify the negative aspects of an issue to promote their own agenda and mindset. In actuality, these people aren’t hurting our economy in any way. These individuals actually account for a significant boost in the economy across the board in many ways. Unauthorized Immigrants have actually been shown to boost the wages for middle class families, do not benefit from federal welfare programs but still pay taxes, help create diversity and often are the source of the labor workforce. Illegal immigration is only negative because it has the word “illegal” attached to it. If we make it easier for these people to gain…
Since the 1890s, immigrants were opposed and stereotyped especially those who migrated from Asia and Latin America. The nativist opposition have been focusing on the immigrants' language and cultures. The white supremancy groups even held rallies, published racist articles and setup websites to attack the non-European immigrant groups. They viciously named these group together with the black Americans as the "Mud people". These immigrants are seen as a threat to their job and also the Anglo-Protestant…
As an Immigrant, there were many challenges I faced whether it's related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested in and also important to you.…
In conclusion, as a first generation immigrant I could protest that the process of immigration is not easy on any individual. We do not move because we have too, honestly nobody would want to leave the people and things they are familiar with and move to another country. However, we do these things in search of a new life, better education, seeking safety or better jobs. Immigration is never easy on the individual no matter how much time goes by, eventually you learn to cope in order to survive. During the process, many people face mental illness, severe depression, anxiety and stress.…
I am a first-generation immigrant, who have struggled with cultural identity because I grew up with two different cultural values. My childhood consisted of seeing people who look like me and who identified with the same cultural ideas; however, after moving to southern California, I witnessed a diverse population with different cultures. My cultural influences come from my parents and peers and the media, so I feel conflicted between the traditional and conservative culture of my parents and the liberal and open-minded values of my peers.…
Immigrants are created through hardships, weather they be monetary, location based, or otherwise. They are a breed of people created through circumstance. This reigns true for a recent interviewee of mine from Chihuahua, Marianna. A girl only the age of 16 who, by definition, moved from her own country for permanent residence in the US. After an extensive (short) interviewing process I was than asked to compare either a personal story of immigration within my family or broadly relate the hardships of an old school mexican immigrant that goes by the handle of a “Bracero”. To that of the experiences of Marianna. Seeing as how I lack the one to one equivalence to relate to any form of an immigrant I will be comparing my dad's upbringing (or lack…
enjoy reading your post. You made very good observations between both the NEA and the CEC, I like that you mentioned about teachers not talking to people about the students. I don't work in the school system yet, as many of our classmates that are already working with students, A few months ago I was talking to a lady that is also going to school to be a teacher, she was telling me that she went to a school to do her practicum field experience at a school where there were a lot of immigrant students. She was stunned as to how the teacher kept talking to her a person she just had met, about how terrible the students were, she mentioned things that were completely unethical and disrespectful. She told me how badly and sad she felt for the…
I was four years old when my family immigrated to the United States from Ukraine. It was a crazy experience and a big life change for all of us. There were many obstacles to be faced living a life completely far away from what we used to call home. It was very difficult to leave my grandparents back in Ukraine. They were a significant source of encouragement for me especially my grandfather. He was my hero. He was the main nurturer who provided a lot of encouragement and support for me in the very hard times of my life. In times of crisis when life felt like a crashing wave, he was the one I always ran to for guidance. Like most immigrants, we didn’t know any English, therefore it was extremely hard to communicate with anyone.…
Growing up with two parents going through med school it was alway harsh. My parents could barely afford to pay rent and groceries. Being first generation immigrants, my parents were the poorest of the poor and only had the relief of their parents and siblings a like, there was no financial backing at all for us except student loans. It went on for this until my dad went to residency in Long Island, New York that we could finally live a life that was not paycheck to paycheck. Now after all my dad’s training being finished, we could finally live the…
I just want to say I do share the same opinion where we can see that many different people abuse the system, where they manage to make a fraud just to get a Visa, in order to enter to the United States. These frauds that people like to do is to lie in the applications that they submit in order to get the permit and the welcome to our country. These different ways of abuses can from lying on the application on what’s the reason to come here they make a statement that they just want it for tourist purposes. But we can find the fact that they want to stay here as illegally. Other perfect example is through marriage, this could be a very common fraud, where they fallow a wrong procedure of lying to our representatives in order to get here. I could say these could be some of the reason that we need to have a better system or a better structure in order to stop bad people that just want to come here and do bad.…
Going back to the origin of the United States, we were small colonies made up of English immigrants. Fast forward few centuries, the United States has expanded in their territory and their population so far that the origin of the United States, immigrants, are becoming a problem to the immigrants with citizenship and the generations after. In earlier eras, from the late 1800’s through the 1920’s, millions of immigrants set foot in the United States. As a result of the vast population growth, many of the immigrants endured many challenges through these eras of the United States.…