Assimilation or Retaining Ethnic Identity America was founded by a group of diverse immigrants. All immigrants are coming from different parts of the world such as Asia‚ Europe‚ Africa and Mexico and so on. Therefore‚ each person has his or her own culture‚ religion and beliefs. Most of the people who are immigrants are non-English speaking and face struggles and numerous challenges to assimilate into American society. Millions of people have been discriminated due to skin color‚ religions‚
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different forces‚ but they all come with hope. Upon arrival into this glorious and prosperous land‚ immigrants are asked to forget their language‚ shed their cultures and traditions‚ and change the way they talk‚ look‚ dress‚ and think. Their identities are wiped clean and with this purification comes the annihilation of the beauty‚ history‚ diversity and vastness of this world. One-way assimilation‚ the melting pot and forced conformity all succeed in making this world very small and in turn destroying
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as the melting pot results from the fact that the country has many of its people coming from everywhere across the world and thus bringing with them different customs‚ beliefs‚ and cultures that should be assimilated to one. The purpose of the assimilation of the different cultures and customs is to make America a one nation. However‚ this is in contrary to the common belief since America is actually not a ‘melting pot’. Most researchers instead argue that America is ‘salad bowl’ owing to the fact
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aboriginal and Torres Strait children away from their families in an attempt to destroy the Aboriginal race and culture. There was an impact on the aboriginals with a particular policy the Australian Government had introduced‚ which was the policy of ‘Assimilation’. This policy was to encourage many Aboriginal people to give up their culture‚ language‚ tradition‚ knowledge and spirituality to basically become white Australians. Unfortunately this policy didn’t give the Aboriginals the same rights as white
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effect on the country. It was supposed to help shape Canada into a place where “new” Canadians and “old” Canadians could fit into Canada’s lifestyles while maintaining individual past traditions. With the amount of immigrants in Canada today‚ to what point is the line drawn on allowing immigrants
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The assimilation of Indigenous people into European culture was through forceful conversions‚ the concept of the doctrine of discovery and alliances that were only in favor of the Europeans. These led to the Indigenous struggling with their identity‚ even the socioeconomic
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“Peter D. Salins Assimilation‚ American Style provides his thoughts on the way in which immigrants were assimilated once upon a time and the contributions that they made to the United States. Immigration was something big during the time period in which he grew up‚ however as time pushes forward immigration is becoming something that has been seemingly misunderstood or misrepresented. Salin piques readers’ interest by suggesting that many American’s have forgotten or possibly “no longer appreciate
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12/02/13 Stacey Pendleton Becoming American‚ Becoming Ethnic. United States has always been recognized throughout the world as the “Land of Opportunity.” The attraction of the promise of freedom‚ wealth‚ prosperity‚ and success had drawn millions of immigrants to come to America and search for a better life. One of the most important aspects is that the U.S is an egalitarian nation which opportunities are given based upon ability or achievement‚ rather than social status or circumstances of birth. My
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talking about how white people are in fact a mix of all the European ethnicities which is what caused “the lowering of racial boundaries starting in the nineteen forties where ethnic began replacing race as applied to the descendants of european immigrants” in the United States. As quoted at the very beginning of this document “race is an idea‚ not a fact.” Moreover‚ to categorize people by race is just an idea‚ in fact race is a social construct‚ just as for example the word feminine and masculine
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becoming more popular among immigrant Mexicans. RR4 Munoz Page 2 Response In “Leave Your Name at the Border‚” Manuel Munoz describes how people today "leave their name at the border" which means they change their name and assimilate a new culture. Many people have changed their Spanish names to English names‚ not to give in to society‚ but to try and feel included by having an English name. I believe assimilation is different from giving in‚ because to me assimilation means to absorb information
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