Puwat Charukamnoetkanok's Triple Identity

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Tiffany A 06/26/15 Chpt 27 DMV & OPT DMV: The document I chose was Puwat Charukamnoetkanok, “Triple Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in America (1990). Puwat was a student at the State University of New York. He had entered the country from Thailand four years earlier. In the autobiographical essay from him he reflects on his own experiences and compares them to his grandfathers, who moved from China to Thailand in 1937. Puwat graduated from college in 1992, and had gone to medical school and is now a physician. This document expresses how he thought that “America is the land of opportunity” (Puwat 336). Later on he realized that it was from that especially in his younger years. His reality became that he had arrived at a place…show more content…
He said though he had never experienced prejudice directly, it still affected him the same. He had to learn a lot and it was difficult for him to learn the language similar to his grandparents. Living in America he learned about racism and cultural differences. The values he learned as child, he could not understand why people in America did not follow especially with having nothing to lose. Here he felt like he had three identities, but like others and his grandparents in Thailand he felt that he should also ignore people who were prejudice because he had that choice. He felt that if he could still work at achieving the goal he set for himself to ignore the negative and continue to build himself up, that he could someday be accepted for who he was here in America by people. He said that America was the land of opportunity “but with all good land, hard work and patience are needed to harvest crops” (340). From this document my understanding is that not only did people of color dealt with civil rights issues, but immigrants from all places did. Puwat was very strong with holding onto his morals and values coming here, and realizing that his grandparent’s strength and the people from Ar-kong and Ar-ma

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