For this reason, one advantage of immigration for the United States is the increase in diversity of cultures all over the country. The United States is commonly seen as an immigrant nation, a common ground where everyone is welcome to work hard, improve living conditions, and chase what we call the American dream. It's true that immigration has always been an important part of American life, but in reality the U.S. has become strict about who can legally enter its borders. Of course, for every lawful immigrant in the United States, there are many more who try to enter illegally. Illegal immigration occurs when foreign individuals break U.S. immigration laws by illegally entering or residing in the country.
People across the world come here in hopes of the “American Dream” and for some, it does happen, but at what cost? How many come in hopes of finding a better life but just realize that to find a better life they must leave behind culture and previous ways of life. They realize that although they come here to be accepted, they’re isolated and in some cases looked down upon by the natives, in this case Americans. Immigration has always been an issue to some natives, viewing immigrants as people who take and ruin their turf, rather than just trying to share it. In “The House on Mango Street” the author, Sandra Cisneros, really shows us all the troubles an immigrant faces like isolation and the struggle of assimilation.
What’s unique about the American society is that after the many years immigrants have assimilated, they’ve been able to mold themselves into the American identity but at the same time preserve their foreign culture. As Douglas Rivelin has said, “Immigrants come and change America and are changed by America”. From the very start of our nation, immigrants have flooded in from different countries in search for a better life in America, taking bits and pieces of their home country with them. This then results in a heterogeneous society of different cultures becoming more homogenous by adapting to
Castillo 2 Diversity in America not only presents a host of intimate snapshots of culture and heritage, but documents the struggles of nationalities to integrate into the “melting pot” society of America, and highlights the strength and integrity of various cultural leaders and thinkers.” http://www.worldandi.com/specialcollection/special-collection-diversity.asp. So if you don’t think that diversity in America is not very important think again because we are a country of diversity. That’s what makes America the way it is and that is the way it has always been. Even back to when America was being colonized there was diversity with Native Americans, Europeans, Mexicans, and Latin Americans. Another reason why American exceptionalism is viewed as good is because we have extremely good medical care here.
The United States of America is a nation that thrives on diversity and acknowledges the necessity to offer opportunity in order to sustain equality. This country was built from the hard work of immigrants from all over the world to build what is America today. Many people arrive to the United States from their homeland countries both legally and illegally and it has never been such a concern until now. Immigration legal and illegal has pulled in plenty of eyebrow raises, media reports, and arguments on wither it places a positive or negative stain on the United States. Some believe that America benefits from immigration, while others blame immigration for all economic and employment crisis.
Immigrants Connect Countries As we know that there are more and more immigrants coming to America this years and in the near future the increasing trend of immigrants will be continued. “Immigrants help America plug into a vast web of global networks.” (Lexington, 2010). While lots of immigrants leave their home and come to America, the communication between America and other countries, where the immigrants come, become deep and frequent. Immigrants play two significant roles in the process of communication between America and home countries. One role is helping America to promote the “soft power” and Western values.
The documentary explores the development of English through many aspects of how it is spoken. Because of the many immigrants into the United States, the English language evolves with every new group of immigrants. I identified that when people wear an image they act different, changing the personality and every aspect of them. I am not saying that people are expressing themselves with their clothes but when they adopt a new language, they tend to act and mimic the words, phrases and accents. It is my opinion that the English language is dying, losing its values of what it used to be, but at the same time it is adopting new words, mutating into a new language, the
In cultural assimilation occurs the bigger cultures, principal culture in a country, or the culture with more population absorb the smaller cultures. A good example of this happened many years ago when Europeans came to United States for a better life and jobs. The new immigrants had their own culture, but they had to adapt to American culture. This made Europeans were forgetting their traditions, and consequently they adopt the American culture. In contrast, multiculturalism is known to be well defined every religion or culture, for example in Dallas, TX.
American exceptionalism can give America an edge over other nations simply because of our freedom to choose what we want to be and do. Americans may never trade or give up what they have in this country for anything different. We have high taxes, low minimum wages, and even may flaws in the political system and also corrupt politician that are supposed to keep us running. Many people may argue that the United States is better than almost any country because of our freedoms, but
Every day, approximately 95, 000 foreigners arrive in America whereby, around 3,000 are invited to become permanent residents. Around one thousand of them are unauthorized foreigners mostly Mexicans. Immigration from various nations to the US, has led to numerous changes in the American culture as far as laws, policies, and systems are concerned. The non-European immigrants have been seen to reshape the prior European protestant character of the American nation in a number of ways such as, introduction of new welfare systems, changes in immigration policies, and industrialization (Martin & Midgley, 2003, pp. 3-4).