Symbolic Interaction: Immigrating To The United States
Symbolic Interaction
Perhaps my family response to immigrating to the United States was to do our best to improve our condition in this country based on we did not perceive this experience as unpleasant but as an opportunity. My mother immigrated in 2010 looking to improve her financial situation and pay her debt. My mother went to work at a factory despite her educational degree because she was determined to pay her loans. My mother then decided to stay and married because she believed that we would have more opportunities to progress in this country than our own. My mother was aware that she had to make a big sacrifice, but she considered worthy. My mother’s siblings were all able to progress and to maintain a financial stability which gave …show more content…
For my family, the United States meant the chance to reach their goals and to improve their lives. However, my family perception differed from others on that we did not only came here to pay for my mother debts and improve our financial status but to seek for a better education, job opportunities, and progress. My mother experiences also shaped my meaning of an illegal immigrant. I defined an illegal immigrant as a person who comes to the country and stays without being able to improve its condition but to work to cover its basic needs (Blumer, 1986 & Herrera, 2012). My definition of an illegal immigrant merely came from a stereotype obtained from the media.
The symbolic interaction theory also explains my family meaning of education and financial stability. We classified education and hard work as one of the many ways to progress based on a social constructivism that shaping our definition of success and stability (Robbins, 2012, p. 7). We all associate a good job with a good education level and hard work. We believe that the higher our educational attainment, the more opportunities to obtain a good job offering an income that provides us stability. We developed this meaning from our culture and others …show more content…
In addition, I thought about what aspects I have changed and whether I relapse or lapse and how that impact my determination to recover. When discussing the symbolic interaction and our concept of reality, I correlated our meaning to have a stronger nexus to individual experiences than collective or others experiences. I believe that the higher the expose to the event the greater the sense and the greater the role that play in our lives. Immigration did not have the same meaning that now has for my family and me before we contemplated to embark on this new adventure or when we first started. Our experiences shape our behavior and influence our interaction with the
Perhaps my family response to immigrating to the United States was to do our best to improve our condition in this country based on we did not perceive this experience as unpleasant but as an opportunity. My mother immigrated in 2010 looking to improve her financial situation and pay her debt. My mother went to work at a factory despite her educational degree because she was determined to pay her loans. My mother then decided to stay and married because she believed that we would have more opportunities to progress in this country than our own. My mother was aware that she had to make a big sacrifice, but she considered worthy. My mother’s siblings were all able to progress and to maintain a financial stability which gave …show more content…
For my family, the United States meant the chance to reach their goals and to improve their lives. However, my family perception differed from others on that we did not only came here to pay for my mother debts and improve our financial status but to seek for a better education, job opportunities, and progress. My mother experiences also shaped my meaning of an illegal immigrant. I defined an illegal immigrant as a person who comes to the country and stays without being able to improve its condition but to work to cover its basic needs (Blumer, 1986 & Herrera, 2012). My definition of an illegal immigrant merely came from a stereotype obtained from the media.
The symbolic interaction theory also explains my family meaning of education and financial stability. We classified education and hard work as one of the many ways to progress based on a social constructivism that shaping our definition of success and stability (Robbins, 2012, p. 7). We all associate a good job with a good education level and hard work. We believe that the higher our educational attainment, the more opportunities to obtain a good job offering an income that provides us stability. We developed this meaning from our culture and others …show more content…
In addition, I thought about what aspects I have changed and whether I relapse or lapse and how that impact my determination to recover. When discussing the symbolic interaction and our concept of reality, I correlated our meaning to have a stronger nexus to individual experiences than collective or others experiences. I believe that the higher the expose to the event the greater the sense and the greater the role that play in our lives. Immigration did not have the same meaning that now has for my family and me before we contemplated to embark on this new adventure or when we first started. Our experiences shape our behavior and influence our interaction with the