Assimilation
Commonly, immigrant parents think about whether the opportunities in America are worth sacrificing traditional cultures, before moving to America. American society seems to be too powerful a magnet for most people born in this country to resist. For most people in the immigrant generation, the promises of American life remain promising. America is the country which we can find the most culture diversity in the world. Assimilation into a society is difficult for anyone, yet is especially difficult for those who have social externalities. Social externalities are those that are visible, physical qualities. There are three forms of assimilation: Anglo-conformity, melting pot, and cultural pluralism. However, complete assimilation is difficult due to the social externalities. Liu noticed that there was an order to things and he had to learn the way thorough it. Instead of disappointment he tried very hard to get a place for him. "I response not by exploding in rebellion but by dedicating myself, quietly and sometimes angrily , to learning the order as best I could" In the mean time he went through stinging adolescent. Liu had experienced much discrimination because of his social externalities. His looks, his loves and his manners
" "Were those billable hours?" "It's getting hard for a white guy to find a place to eat. " Liu wasn't intentionally trying to act just like white people. She not only had a great husband and three children with him, but also had a great life. Only that he found the identity he wanted in middle class people, it so happened white people, he tried to be like them. She had desperately tried many other ways to solve her problem but in vein. Nevertheless, she couldn't satisfy with her life and felt the need inside her. In Sherman Alexie story of assimilation, Mary Lynn, an Coeur d'Alene Indian married to a white man, tired to find her own identity. However, he had managed to get rid of all of his social burdens in one way of another. gave him a hard time in blending into white people. ""Damn affirmative action is what it is. "He came to identify not with white people in general but with that subset of people, most of them white who were educated, affluent. Her most cherish moment when she felt lonely was to listen to the Indian songs. It is expected for one to lose sight of his/her own culture and to conform to the Anglo-Saxon.
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