As a 1.5 generation immigrant who brought to the United States at a young age by their immigrating parents (Gonzalez, 2010, p.1), I have experienced first-hand, the struggles of being 1.5 generation immigrant. In particular, my identity. Immigrating to The United States has shaped many aspects of my life, including my struggle to assimilate both American and Chinese culture and the formation of my identity. How hegemony and Bandwagon effect that humans want to follow the mainstream torn my identity apart. Based on my observation, I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced this problem. I believe that we must understand the important of the issue by using sociological imagination to find the important of the social effects behind
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It is extremely hard to learn a new language, especially when the language has nothing related to the mother tongue. I have to the language while I learn other subjects via the language. Other than the language, I have to learn how to act, l attitudes. It was very tough. However, most Americans have not learned the language system that is other than Indo-European languages. They cannot understand that the gap between East Asian Languages, especially Chinese. It is far greater than other languages in the Indo-European language. So my efforts was easily be ignored, the results of efforts has been taken for granted. If I have misnomer or use the wrong word, most the people would ignore me or misunderstand me.it is primarily your anguish. As an immigrant, I realized that only when you are very familiar with each other, they would go out of his way to understand you: When Immigrants English , we cannot be fully represented to the people because we really do not know what we said means to other. All of that makes me feel that I am not part of the group.Everytime, when I with other “Americans”, even if the person was American born Chinese. I just feel that I am not part of them. I am not part of the society. They remind me that I am a …show more content…
Some of behaviors were more and more close to American, as described in a report: “my behavior tend[s] to go toward the American side. (Kim, 2003, p.166)When I just came to the US, I would see Chinese New Year parades. I would decorate my room for the Chinese New Year. However, over time, gradually, I stopped celebrating the New Year. I still do not have many American friends and try to fit in. I have acceptable material life, but spiritually, I always found a bit lonely and depressed; with the domestic gap between the world of me and the world of China is becoming more different. Increasingly, I had less contact with friends in China. There are less and less that we can truly talk about. I basically stopped reading Chines news. In my ten grade, I had a chance to travel to China. I found that I am getting farther and farther away from China. There are many new slangs that I could not understand any of them. I had also visited my former friends when they are talking about the filmss, I had no idea what they were talking about. Some of the friends are married, they would talk about their wives. I had no idea what they were talking about. In addition, have been living in the US for a long time, my way of thinking, behaviors and language have been Americanized. Everytime when I talked to someone, I would speak a mixed my Chinese and English. I did not intentionally do
It is extremely hard to learn a new language, especially when the language has nothing related to the mother tongue. I have to the language while I learn other subjects via the language. Other than the language, I have to learn how to act, l attitudes. It was very tough. However, most Americans have not learned the language system that is other than Indo-European languages. They cannot understand that the gap between East Asian Languages, especially Chinese. It is far greater than other languages in the Indo-European language. So my efforts was easily be ignored, the results of efforts has been taken for granted. If I have misnomer or use the wrong word, most the people would ignore me or misunderstand me.it is primarily your anguish. As an immigrant, I realized that only when you are very familiar with each other, they would go out of his way to understand you: When Immigrants English , we cannot be fully represented to the people because we really do not know what we said means to other. All of that makes me feel that I am not part of the group.Everytime, when I with other “Americans”, even if the person was American born Chinese. I just feel that I am not part of them. I am not part of the society. They remind me that I am a …show more content…
Some of behaviors were more and more close to American, as described in a report: “my behavior tend[s] to go toward the American side. (Kim, 2003, p.166)When I just came to the US, I would see Chinese New Year parades. I would decorate my room for the Chinese New Year. However, over time, gradually, I stopped celebrating the New Year. I still do not have many American friends and try to fit in. I have acceptable material life, but spiritually, I always found a bit lonely and depressed; with the domestic gap between the world of me and the world of China is becoming more different. Increasingly, I had less contact with friends in China. There are less and less that we can truly talk about. I basically stopped reading Chines news. In my ten grade, I had a chance to travel to China. I found that I am getting farther and farther away from China. There are many new slangs that I could not understand any of them. I had also visited my former friends when they are talking about the filmss, I had no idea what they were talking about. Some of the friends are married, they would talk about their wives. I had no idea what they were talking about. In addition, have been living in the US for a long time, my way of thinking, behaviors and language have been Americanized. Everytime when I talked to someone, I would speak a mixed my Chinese and English. I did not intentionally do