Assimilation Is a Killer of Success Everyone wants to succeed one day. The most common thing will happen when people chase their goals is that people will find shortcuts. Of course, shortcut is the easiest way for people to achieve their dreams. However, people’s dreams are always snuffed out since they use the shortcut.
In Manuel Muñoz essay called “Leave Your Name at the Border”, Spanish people choose to change their first name to English name for kinds of advantages that being assimilation can bring to people’s daily lives. However, being assimilation still bring some disadvantages. People will lose many good chances to be successful. In Wesley Yang’s essay called “Paper Tigers”, American’s inherent thoughts of Asian-American has …show more content…
To be successful still has requirements about some basic qualities in modern society. Some changes are not as easy as changing their first name since identities are brought when people born. As Muñoz claims, “Ours, then, were names that stood as barriers to a complete embrace of an American identity, simply because their pronunciations required a slip into Spanish, the otherness that assimilation was supposed to erase.”(309) Spanish people try to add American identities to themselves. However, it is a long process. It is even not easy for Spanish people to totally fit in the American’s pronunciations. People in Spain wants to change their lives by changing their first name, however, they do not notice that although their first names were changed, their culture and their background are still there. As Yang indicates, “The issue is more fundamental, the social dynamics at work more deeply embedded, and the remedial work required may be at a more basic level of comportment.”(542) Race is a barrier that hard to stride over. People are trained for stride over the barrier, but they are not conscious of the real reason about “Bamboo Ceiling”. LEAP do help lots of people who want to be successful. However, the reason why there no Asian people can be the leader is people themselves. Thus, being assimilation is useless sometimes since to be successful depend on people …show more content…
Every country has its own characteristics. It is not good to add other things to a country. Although those things can bring some advantages, the traditional things will be damaged. As Muñoz mentions, “The English-only way of life partly explains the quiet erasure of culture difference that assimilation has attempted to accomplish.” (308) For being assimilation, Spanish people give up their traditional things in some ways. Traditional things mean that the thing just especially exist in their country. When people go to a country for travel, they would like to know the traditional things about that country since knowing a country better is knowing its history. However, the country begins to give up some part of their country. Thus, the country is not completely as same as before. Furthermore, the public always has the bias of different races. Yang notices and claims that “This is obviously unfair to the many qualified Asian individuals who are punished for the success of there with similar faces.” (536) It is like when people see someone has India face, they will ask “are you major in computer science?” If he or she answers “No”, people will strange about it. It is an interesting thing. But, it really hurt someone sometimes. Everyone has his or her gift. Not everyone good at the same thing. People cannot be influenced by the public. Also, people need not tell themselves to do what
In Manuel Muñoz essay called “Leave Your Name at the Border”, Spanish people choose to change their first name to English name for kinds of advantages that being assimilation can bring to people’s daily lives. However, being assimilation still bring some disadvantages. People will lose many good chances to be successful. In Wesley Yang’s essay called “Paper Tigers”, American’s inherent thoughts of Asian-American has …show more content…
To be successful still has requirements about some basic qualities in modern society. Some changes are not as easy as changing their first name since identities are brought when people born. As Muñoz claims, “Ours, then, were names that stood as barriers to a complete embrace of an American identity, simply because their pronunciations required a slip into Spanish, the otherness that assimilation was supposed to erase.”(309) Spanish people try to add American identities to themselves. However, it is a long process. It is even not easy for Spanish people to totally fit in the American’s pronunciations. People in Spain wants to change their lives by changing their first name, however, they do not notice that although their first names were changed, their culture and their background are still there. As Yang indicates, “The issue is more fundamental, the social dynamics at work more deeply embedded, and the remedial work required may be at a more basic level of comportment.”(542) Race is a barrier that hard to stride over. People are trained for stride over the barrier, but they are not conscious of the real reason about “Bamboo Ceiling”. LEAP do help lots of people who want to be successful. However, the reason why there no Asian people can be the leader is people themselves. Thus, being assimilation is useless sometimes since to be successful depend on people …show more content…
Every country has its own characteristics. It is not good to add other things to a country. Although those things can bring some advantages, the traditional things will be damaged. As Muñoz mentions, “The English-only way of life partly explains the quiet erasure of culture difference that assimilation has attempted to accomplish.” (308) For being assimilation, Spanish people give up their traditional things in some ways. Traditional things mean that the thing just especially exist in their country. When people go to a country for travel, they would like to know the traditional things about that country since knowing a country better is knowing its history. However, the country begins to give up some part of their country. Thus, the country is not completely as same as before. Furthermore, the public always has the bias of different races. Yang notices and claims that “This is obviously unfair to the many qualified Asian individuals who are punished for the success of there with similar faces.” (536) It is like when people see someone has India face, they will ask “are you major in computer science?” If he or she answers “No”, people will strange about it. It is an interesting thing. But, it really hurt someone sometimes. Everyone has his or her gift. Not everyone good at the same thing. People cannot be influenced by the public. Also, people need not tell themselves to do what