Different Viewpoints on Immigration Frequent conflicts currently seen in America reflect back to the issues addressed by Bharati Mukherjee in her article “Two Ways to Belong in America”. Mukherjee describes the experience her sister, Mira Mukherjee, and she underwent when moving to America and the conflicts that occurred while living in the United States. The tension both sisters felt when moving to America are what newly immigrants face such as the transformation of life. During their residence in America, processed changes in the regulation of immigration were found to be threatening and harassing immigrants; many issues which immigrants of today are facing. Although Mukherjee’s views may promote sympathetic acknowledgment towards immigrants, they also hold reason on
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Her sister-throughout her years living in the United States-has remained stuck to her native heritage and refused to become an American citizen. According to Mukherjee, Mira is happier to live in America as an expatriate Indian than as an immigrant American (Mukherjee 507). As with Mukherjee, she has come to be a part of the American society. She has displayed to have given great spirit regarding living in the US, briefing “America spoke to me--I married it--I embraced the demotion from living as an expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousands of years “pure culture” (Mukherjee 507). Today’s problems in the real world of immigration in the United States is the deep change they face when arriving in the free world. To come to a nation that differs greatly in cultures but contains a vast within itself, it becomes a challenge to accommodate oneself with it all and adjust to new customs. Through Mira’s and Mukherjee’s perspectives, and those who continue to cross borders to live in the United States, changing homelands that differ significantly, bare ultimate tests for
Her sister-throughout her years living in the United States-has remained stuck to her native heritage and refused to become an American citizen. According to Mukherjee, Mira is happier to live in America as an expatriate Indian than as an immigrant American (Mukherjee 507). As with Mukherjee, she has come to be a part of the American society. She has displayed to have given great spirit regarding living in the US, briefing “America spoke to me--I married it--I embraced the demotion from living as an expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousands of years “pure culture” (Mukherjee 507). Today’s problems in the real world of immigration in the United States is the deep change they face when arriving in the free world. To come to a nation that differs greatly in cultures but contains a vast within itself, it becomes a challenge to accommodate oneself with it all and adjust to new customs. Through Mira’s and Mukherjee’s perspectives, and those who continue to cross borders to live in the United States, changing homelands that differ significantly, bare ultimate tests for