How hard to be accepted by society as an immigrant
This essay would like to seek the difficulties faced by immigrants, especially those Africans who immigrate to developed country such as the United States and the United Kingdom. This essay would place the emphasis on what kind of problems they might face and why those conflicts arise. At the same time, the author wished to talk about some circumstances showed by a novel: the “Americanah” wrote by a Nigerian writer Alfred A. Knopf. This novel perfectly combined several elements together: American dreams, immigration, the first love power and the skin color meanings via a story of a spirited Nigerian girl Ifemelu – She departed for America with a strong personality. What kinds of difficulties …show more content…
Under such harsh condition, Obinze’s feel huge pressure and was nervous about his condition at most time. He has no idea about entering into the society, all he cared about was his survive and the danger of being discovered by the government. When Obinze was invited by his Nigerian classmate to a dinner party, he found his unique position as a middle class refugee. Obinze found that it was choiceless for his life just like escaping from war or kind of poverty, and he realized his surrounding people who were raised well and lived well would not understand his behavior such as taking up dangerous things or illegal things. For Obinze, he just made the choice of not hungry. Meanwhile in the U.S., Ifemelu found it is hard to get a part time job. She was declined from menial jobs as a waitress, cashier or bartender. Her classmates chatted with her with a slow speed as she could not understand Basic English. She was often alone in the class and after class. As Ifemelu said, she was categorized in Nigeria by tribe, but she was categorized by race in the United State. It is interesting and pathetic that she could feel herself black when she moved to the United States. There is still some judgment about her difference from those American-African girls. She found the American-African has changed their custom to meet …show more content…
In criminal justice system, the racial profiling, over-policing and bias by minorities would result in high numbers of racial minorities among crime suspects (Warren and Tomaskovic-Devey, 2009). In education and work circumstance, the result also showed the racial issues: Milkman, Akinola and Chugh (2015) conducted a research among 6500 professors at 259 institutions from top American universities. The names of students were randomly assigned to single gender and race, while the messages were identical. This research found that when the lecturer considered requests from prospective students of mentoring, faculty would be more responsive to the White than all other categories of students. It is clearly to see, that the prejudgment could not be avoided in most of cases. Just like the Ifemelu and Obinze, they faced such problems from outside and their inside recognition. They found it is hard to be accepted by the society and tried their best to conquer those problems. Ifemelu found her journey in the United States is somehow a journey of race, and she feel disappointed as she could not see the bright future for black Americans. Being treated and categorized is not a easy thing. As a Nigerian who come from the Africa, Ifemelu is too special to the United States. In fact, she could be more employable when she relaxed her hair like those white girls, but Ifemelu refused. During all the time
This essay would like to seek the difficulties faced by immigrants, especially those Africans who immigrate to developed country such as the United States and the United Kingdom. This essay would place the emphasis on what kind of problems they might face and why those conflicts arise. At the same time, the author wished to talk about some circumstances showed by a novel: the “Americanah” wrote by a Nigerian writer Alfred A. Knopf. This novel perfectly combined several elements together: American dreams, immigration, the first love power and the skin color meanings via a story of a spirited Nigerian girl Ifemelu – She departed for America with a strong personality. What kinds of difficulties …show more content…
Under such harsh condition, Obinze’s feel huge pressure and was nervous about his condition at most time. He has no idea about entering into the society, all he cared about was his survive and the danger of being discovered by the government. When Obinze was invited by his Nigerian classmate to a dinner party, he found his unique position as a middle class refugee. Obinze found that it was choiceless for his life just like escaping from war or kind of poverty, and he realized his surrounding people who were raised well and lived well would not understand his behavior such as taking up dangerous things or illegal things. For Obinze, he just made the choice of not hungry. Meanwhile in the U.S., Ifemelu found it is hard to get a part time job. She was declined from menial jobs as a waitress, cashier or bartender. Her classmates chatted with her with a slow speed as she could not understand Basic English. She was often alone in the class and after class. As Ifemelu said, she was categorized in Nigeria by tribe, but she was categorized by race in the United State. It is interesting and pathetic that she could feel herself black when she moved to the United States. There is still some judgment about her difference from those American-African girls. She found the American-African has changed their custom to meet …show more content…
In criminal justice system, the racial profiling, over-policing and bias by minorities would result in high numbers of racial minorities among crime suspects (Warren and Tomaskovic-Devey, 2009). In education and work circumstance, the result also showed the racial issues: Milkman, Akinola and Chugh (2015) conducted a research among 6500 professors at 259 institutions from top American universities. The names of students were randomly assigned to single gender and race, while the messages were identical. This research found that when the lecturer considered requests from prospective students of mentoring, faculty would be more responsive to the White than all other categories of students. It is clearly to see, that the prejudgment could not be avoided in most of cases. Just like the Ifemelu and Obinze, they faced such problems from outside and their inside recognition. They found it is hard to be accepted by the society and tried their best to conquer those problems. Ifemelu found her journey in the United States is somehow a journey of race, and she feel disappointed as she could not see the bright future for black Americans. Being treated and categorized is not a easy thing. As a Nigerian who come from the Africa, Ifemelu is too special to the United States. In fact, she could be more employable when she relaxed her hair like those white girls, but Ifemelu refused. During all the time