Essay On American Culture
For many years now America has been seen as a melting pot. There are hundreds of immigrants coming every year from all over the world in search for something better. With them they bring their languages, traditions, music, and food but most importantly they bring their cultures and backgrounds that they can share with us. But does the multiplicity of cultures in the U.S (in LA) affect who we are today. Immigrants have had an impact in our society in many ways it was just very difficult for them to show us that because they weren’t given the opportunity. Weather it was discrimination from Americans or even other immigrants, or it was just plain hard for them because they didn’t speak the same language which made it a lot harder to communicate
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In the article “immigrants Shunning” on the Washington post states that “Jacinto became a U.S citizen last April but she does not feel American.” Although she became an American citizen she still doesn’t feel like American society has accepted her. This is how a lot of people still feel today. She also said in the same article “In Hispanic tradition the family comes first, not money.” This is also another good reason why it’s hard for immigrants. Since most immigrants have little education and poor English it is hard for them to get a decent job that doesn’t pay minimum wage. And Hispanics like she said always put their family first but here in America they have to work twice as hard just to make it and because there always working they have less time for their families. This is something that a lot of Hispanic immigrants are not used to. Also a lot of immigrants think of the American dream as hope and a place that is going to be a lot easier. But in Jack Solomon’s book chapter 5 “Masters of Desire” he states that “the American dream has two faces the communally egalitarian or the competitive elitist.”(Solomon 145) in other words the ones who believe in equal rights or the ones that want to be dominated by one person, most immigrants leave there country’s because they want to be freed from one person being in charge. And to come here and see “competitive elitist” who think they
In the article “immigrants Shunning” on the Washington post states that “Jacinto became a U.S citizen last April but she does not feel American.” Although she became an American citizen she still doesn’t feel like American society has accepted her. This is how a lot of people still feel today. She also said in the same article “In Hispanic tradition the family comes first, not money.” This is also another good reason why it’s hard for immigrants. Since most immigrants have little education and poor English it is hard for them to get a decent job that doesn’t pay minimum wage. And Hispanics like she said always put their family first but here in America they have to work twice as hard just to make it and because there always working they have less time for their families. This is something that a lot of Hispanic immigrants are not used to. Also a lot of immigrants think of the American dream as hope and a place that is going to be a lot easier. But in Jack Solomon’s book chapter 5 “Masters of Desire” he states that “the American dream has two faces the communally egalitarian or the competitive elitist.”(Solomon 145) in other words the ones who believe in equal rights or the ones that want to be dominated by one person, most immigrants leave there country’s because they want to be freed from one person being in charge. And to come here and see “competitive elitist” who think they