Part One
Culture Shock (pg. 35) – The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions In the film, the immigrants spoke about how they were excited to migrate to the United States. Their whole village seemed to know how dangerous the journey would be, but they all would talk about how ‘amazing’ America really is compared to their own country. They spoke about jobs, being able to prosper, being able to provide for their families, and have better living conditions. When they began their journey to immigrate to the US, their hopes were pretty much destroyed when they realized how difficult it really is to get into the country. Once they crossed the border, they were spoken to and treated inhumanely, like criminals. They worked so hard to get to where they were, but the way they were looked at was not how they hoped. They …show more content…
Their way of thinking is they think they’re doing our country good by working ‘harder’ than the actual official border patrol staff. They claim the immigrants are all terrorists, robbers, thieves, rapist, child molesters, criminals, thugs, gang members… All “coming to a neighborhood near you!”. Perhaps they believe the propaganda that illegals are taking ‘their’ jobs, but they seem to hold a white supremacy mindset regardless if anyone tells them otherwise. They are set in their racist ways and don’t realize these people are only trying to make a living when coming over here. Most of them do not want to cause harm, start violence, or any of the nonsense they spoke about. However, the men keep insisting that “this is America”… But they fail to realize that just because someone is not white, does not mean that they do not deserve citizenship.
Culture Shock (pg. 35) – The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions In the film, the immigrants spoke about how they were excited to migrate to the United States. Their whole village seemed to know how dangerous the journey would be, but they all would talk about how ‘amazing’ America really is compared to their own country. They spoke about jobs, being able to prosper, being able to provide for their families, and have better living conditions. When they began their journey to immigrate to the US, their hopes were pretty much destroyed when they realized how difficult it really is to get into the country. Once they crossed the border, they were spoken to and treated inhumanely, like criminals. They worked so hard to get to where they were, but the way they were looked at was not how they hoped. They …show more content…
Their way of thinking is they think they’re doing our country good by working ‘harder’ than the actual official border patrol staff. They claim the immigrants are all terrorists, robbers, thieves, rapist, child molesters, criminals, thugs, gang members… All “coming to a neighborhood near you!”. Perhaps they believe the propaganda that illegals are taking ‘their’ jobs, but they seem to hold a white supremacy mindset regardless if anyone tells them otherwise. They are set in their racist ways and don’t realize these people are only trying to make a living when coming over here. Most of them do not want to cause harm, start violence, or any of the nonsense they spoke about. However, the men keep insisting that “this is America”… But they fail to realize that just because someone is not white, does not mean that they do not deserve citizenship.