In ways, immigrants experience situations that many individuals can identify with. As an example, they experience the desire to “fit in” and often assimilate because of this. Although their troubles may be far more intense, we are still able to improve our situations by examining how they coped with their struggled. For instance, most immigrants struggle to learn the language when they arrive in Canada. Their stories of communicational struggle can help us when we’re in the same situation. If a young girl was lost in a foreign country, perhaps she’d remember her grandfather’s stories of communicating with the people around him through exaggerated expression. This could help her find her family. Or, alternately, we could learn more generic
