According to her, Americanization really means globalization in fact, being American means having freedom to express yourself, being individual (ex, in Japan she said, they are more like a group, develop themselves) and the most important, freedom of speech (find in the document of the four freedoms as well, biggest american value). I share her point of view because
However, the idea of immigrant for Lori and her parents very surprised me because looking at materials cover in class, the process of immigration impacted in major party subordinate races such as Mexican american, Black or African american who were moving from their countries to American or of those already here, from the South to the North ( promise land).
As another historical event, she remembers very well the Vietnam war from the beginning to the end, when she narrates the war, she mentioned that the reason why she keep it in mind is because she saw her parents watched it a lot on the television and people on the road were listening to that on