a college student who migrated to this country just nine years ago makes me wonder where I stand. Technically‚ I am no longer an immigrant because I am a citizen and I am able to vote‚ and I feel as though I have gone through a quick process of assimilation along with my siblings. Even though we have assimilated‚ in our household‚ we still speak our own language‚ hold our traditions and values of own culture as we did when we came to this country. When we are out in the public‚ perhaps that’s when
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There are many instances where cultural shock has dominated and resulted to either positive or negative reaction. This has been interpreted differently‚ while there are some that have assimilated‚ some did not have the capacity to go through the assimilation process. This kind of individuals eventually gave up and held up to their familiar ways of life. We begin with a story comprising of two close friends‚ Hyewon and Jeehyun‚ who have had similar experiences in high school. At the beginning‚ the
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The Struggle of Cultural Assimilation: An Analysis of Cultural Clash in “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” In “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy‚ the narrator expresses her longing for Vietnam‚ her home country‚ and how she feels that she and other Vietnamese people represent “fragmented shards” in the American culture- isolated members of a foreign culture. She portrays her emotions almost as if she is pursuing an actual person by using the pronoun “you” in the first stanza to
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how he has reached a new status George in America. White people call him an “honorary white” (Liu 2)‚ while fellow Asian people call him a “banana” (Liu 2)‚ in that he is yellow (Asian) on the outside and white on the inside. Liu believes that assimilation has been “fixed in whiteness” (Liu 4). If anyone assimilates‚ then it is to be white. He adds that the assimilated are portrayed to be traitors to their own race; “He cannot gain the world without losing his soul” (Liu 6). After Liu’s extensive
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Ortiz "Silent Dancing" reflects back on Cofer’s unhappy confusing childhood. Cofer recalls most of her memories from a silent video; both the story and photograph paint a garden of grey memories of isolation‚ unsettling situations‚ the struggles of assimilation‚ and the sadness she experiences as a child. My goal of this essay is to compare and explain the similarities of Cofer’s text to the picture on the book cover of her book. Cofer’s written text and photograph convey very similar ideas about the
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Residential Schools: A Promise to the Aboriginal People Shakainah D. Aycardo Residential Schools in Canada have left a negative and destructive legacy in the lives of Aboriginal People. Aboriginal people hold the results of their ancestors long standing and their occupancy of the land. Hunting‚ trapping‚ and fishing on Ancestral lands‚ some examples that Aboriginal people rights. Residential Schools were established by the Canadian
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American society. When the mother is thinking of joining the country club she states‚ " ’Your father doesn’t believe in joining the American Society. He wants to have his own society’ "(542). This line echoes the ever-present theme in the story of assimilation‚ and the father’s hesitation with adjustment. For people who come from cultures that are significantly different from the freethinking America‚ the process of acculturation can be awkward and even caustic. In the story‚ the father opens his own
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telling in how his opinions were formed because the experiences that he had. In the narrative‚ the themes that I thought were most important were Rodriguez’s experience of separation from his family‚ his feelings of personal alienation and finally assimilation into American society because he had to break away from his private‚ Spanish-speaking childhood into the English-speaking American way of life. The circumstances that Richard Rodriguez dealt with all circled around the fact that his parents were
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words‚ describe the meaning of segmented assimilation. Segmented assimilations meaning is in regards to the experiences immigrants face as they attempt to become part of a dominant nation. According to the sources in the text‚ “the traditional model of assimilation involves 4 phases: contact‚ competition‚ accommodation‚ and then finally‚ assimilation.” At one time‚ these experiences were average for new immigrants to live through. However‚ segmented assimilation describes the different ways an immigrant
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from her life in Cracow‚ Poland – Paradise – to her immigration to Vancouver‚ Canada – Exile – and into her college and literary life – The New World. Eva breaks up her journey into these three sections and gives her personal observations of her assimilation into a new world. The story is based on memory – Eva Hoffman gives us her first-hand perspective through flashbacks with introspective analysis of her life “lost in translation”. It is her memory that permeates through her writing and furthermore
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