Immigrant parents often think about whether opportunities that may be found in America are worth sacrificing traditional cultures. 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 cultural diversity in the world. Assimilation into 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 an order to things, and he had to learn the way through it. Instead of disappointment, he tried very hard to get a place for him. "I responded not by exploding in rebellion but by dedicating myself, quietly and sometimes angrily, to learning the order as best I could" In the meantime, he went through stinging adolescence. Liu had experienced much discrimination because of his social externalities. His looks, his love, and his manners gave him a hard time blending into white people. However, he had managed to get rid of all of his social burdens in one way or another.
             "He came to identify not with white people in general but with that subset of people, most of them white who were educated, affluent." Liu wasn't intentionally trying to act just like white people. He was trying to achieve and learn the way to the upper-middle class. Since white people were influential in the upper-middle class, it seemed to other people that he tried to imitate white people and behave like them and became something artificial. In contrast, he had lost some of his own identity as a Chinese boy and became part of a white family. People called him "Banana." He wasn't delighted with...