Bharati Mukherjee Moving Into America

Moving out of your homeland and migrating into a different country can be terrifying to people. When moving into a new country, an individual have to adjust themselves on how to live because each homeland is different. It is terrifying because trying to fit in the society that you’re not used to isn’t that easy to adapt, it takes a couple of years to fully be used to it. Despite of all the struggles you’ve been through, the benefits of moving into a new country is for better education, more job opportunities, and being able to look into a new perspective in life. In Bharati Mukherjee's essay "Two Ways to Belong in America” talks about herself and her sister Mira on how they both have different perspectives about living in America. Mukherjee compares herself to Mira on how they …show more content…
On the other hand, Anton Shammas essay "Amerka, Amerka: Palestinan Abroad in the Land of the Free" shares various stories from his time in America about himself as well as different people he’s known and how assimilation to the Unites States has affected them. There are plenty ways an immigrant can live in America, whether they choose to fully embrace the American culture or stay true with their own traditions and cultures. Everybody assimilates their own course. Indeed, moving into a new country is frightening but there are plenty of ways to adapt. In “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, she admits that there are only two ways to assimilate; either you’re in or out. She is an Indian woman who migrated with her sister Mira; she studied Child Psychology and Pre-School Education in Detroit while Bharati studied Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Even though both sisters came from India, they both have