Living In Two Worlds

Living in Two Worlds Like every coin has two side, there are always two aspects in every human life. You can’t just experience good and happy lifestyle. Like other people I also experienced ups and down in my life. After reading Kim Hoang’s “Chinese in America, American in China,” I feel that the necessity of immigrants to adapt or not adapt to American Culture, including speaking English, is on the highest level, for vocational, relational, and mental health reasons. For instance, the important aspect of one’s life is highly imperative in any living situation, whether it is inside or outside one’s native country. A person’s job is the source of his income, for that is the way in which he feeds his family, and puts a roof over their heads. In addition, in order to communicate with others at the workplace, a person needs to develop awareness in regard to not only how people speak with each other in America, but as the manner of doing so as well. For instance, knowing that people shake hands upon meeting each other, or that they smile in recognition of a fellow colleague, are the parts of behavior which are imperative to establishing a bond with those one works with. As an immigrant in the United State, it was very difficult for me to accept the new culture and language ,and get along with people from another country, and by the time I have to manage my two little world. Furthermore, the importance of adapting to American culture is prevalent in the concept of social interaction as well. Hoang states how “it’s like I was living in two worlds and even though I was a part of both, I didn’t fit into either of them perfectly” (Hoang 296). Since she was born and raised in New York City, she was completely used to the American culture; therefore, when she went to China, it was difficult for her to communicate with anyone who didn’t speak fluent English. In other words, say it was the other way around, and Hoang was born and raised in China – Hoang