Discrimination In Jaimonda

The two topics I will be focusing on in this paper are, adapting and facing discrimination. The name of the person I interviewed is Raimonda came from Lithuania. She moved to America when she was 3 years old. Moved into a small apartment in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York. When she lived in Deizimelis Lithuania, she said it was a very small town. People were poor. People grew their own food majority of people who lived in that town only had one car per family. They would have to drive a far distance if they wanted food or other items for their everyday life- the most popular bought car was a Ford. The homes were built out of wood, sand cement and dirt. Raimoda remembers her parents facing hard times, which made the parents leave Lithuania and come to America. They came to New York and moved into an area called Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. They rented a small apartment and within the year that they have been living there the father started a small business called “International Shippers”. The mother got an interview for a bank in the local area. At that time, the parents saw that there were great opportunities for there daughter to start another life here. …show more content…
She learned the vernacular and had to try and blend in. But at 3 years old - to her she never understood how to fit in like the rest of her friends in the area. Her mom put her in St Marks on Ocean parkway and stayed there all the way through Junior High School. Raimonda picked up all the key things on how to fit with the rest of the culture. She made different kind of friends- Jamaican, Spanish their background was different and she learned that everyone is an immigrant to America. Understanding the English language was an extremely hard task it’s a challenge to any immigrant. Being English is one of the hardest languages to learn when she was young it was easier for her to pick it up then her parents. Food was very hard