Many first generation parents immigrated here foreseeing a better chance of material success, especially for their children. This however, also comes with a distrust of American family and community values, and this fear leaves the parents in a strange dichotomy: how to raise their child to still hold on to the Japanese cultural values beset in themselves, while raising their child in America, with high hopes and demands for success higher than their own. The children meanwhile must find their own identity between these two countries, and their decision is shaped by a multitude of issues, especially prejudice or racism, and their expectations of such biases. Such discrimination has a direct effect on self esteem, aspirations, and can be a major point of conflict between parent and child, and thus these four issues have a wider effect on the expansion or narrowing of the goals of the second generation child. Thus, the
Much of the Chinese values moved with them to America. In the movie Mulan, all the parents want for their daughter, Mulan, is to bring honor to the family. But Mulan is not your typical Chinese girl; she has her own opinions, and can’t hide who she really is. (Mulan) In the story “Two Kinds”, Jing-mei’s mother and father want her to be a prodigy in order to make a life for herself. At first Jing-mei liked the idea, but after all of her attempts and fails she wanted to live a normal American life.
When Jeanne first arrived at Manzanar, she felt overwhelmed because before, “We were the only Japanese family in the neighborhood.” (7) The family began to grow apart as time passed, so Jeanne began to explore by herself. Once schools started, she began to experiment with many things; however papa didn’t have the same thoughts. Before they began to leave Manzanar, they expected brutal racism because of other stories, but once they arrived in the new place, it wasn’t as bad as they thought. While they were there Jeanne begins to go to Middle school as a 6th grader. While she is there, people are very surprised that she can speak English.
In the book, Gary talks about how his television images motivates him to have a way out of Fresno and it kept him fighting to find away out of poverty. He fought for a place where he can plan his roots and be accepted for who is. Gary also had many family conflicts but the biggest one was with his step dad. Gary’s lack of education and being mistreated in school made him think that his future was going to be living in Fresno the rest of his life like his parents did. Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories.
Infect, it is more like sharing and giving not just food, it could be anything that could help the poverties and I think one of the most important facts is to give them all the happiness you could. Throughout this assignment, I learnt a lot about how many people out there are having a very hard time while we are doing whatever we want to do and having a best time in our life. To prevent the poverty incensement, everyone have to volunteer around them whenever they have chance to do. So some time in our or their life we will learn and also until there are no poverties in the world so the world can be happy living forever.
While her mother was concerned more about the economical aspect of life, the father was preoccupied by the spirituality of his family, about conserving customs and traditions: ‘ Father pushed his hand from his arm.’ (Yezierska, 63) In fact, this conservative attitude of her father and the constant differences they had concerning social and moral values is what made Sara more and more determined to leave home and become an American. Running away from home was Sara’s first step towards becoming a ‘person’. But in order to complete herself as one, she knows she first must be educated. She succeeds in getting herself into college, but she soon finds out that there are many discrepancies between her – an immigrant, and her colleagues – genuine Americans. She finds herself longing to be one of them: ‘Even in school I suffered, because I was not like the rest.’ (Yezierska,
He insists they would not eat as much if they knew that it was bad for them or if the industry put nutrition labels on their food. My outlook on this topic varied significantly from that of Zinczenko’s. I feel that it is not the fault of the fast food company. Neither would I put blame on the younger children who eat fast food. I would put most of the culpability on the parents who do not teach their kids how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and buy their children unhealthy food. I disagree completely that we as Americans suffer from lack of information about nutrition in fast food.
They will cry and keep the parents up in the wee hours of the morning because they either want food, or just the attention that a parent can give, thinking only of themselves. Also, doing something even remotely related to something a parent does, it could be believed that you are born with it. If a parent is greedy and a child is too, one might think that is a characteristic that is born within you, with the help of your parents. In brief, it is unchangeable and there is no choice if it is something that someone is born
However, after these teases and incident at the airports I decided to look more into my Korean family tree. Since I did, I now have a chance to meet my cousins this summer in Korea. I am thinking different situations lead you to be a person that you are today, and the person you will become. The airport incident did change my life. It helped me to push myself to find out that little piece of information that was held from me to knowledge of a family that I didn’t know.
Everyday things happen to us that seem like the worst thing in the world but people who are mentally strong see through it. We have loved ones 2 leave us and we think that it is so bad but we pull out because we know that there is more for us. Knowing what you want in life and going after it is another form of mental strength. When we know what kind of career we want to pursue and we go to school and do everything we can we have to be mentally strong. Spiritual strength comes with believing in something.