Immigration In El Norte By Ronald Takaki

Year to year many people immigrate to the United States of America for various reasons. Each immigrant that comes to the USA has different motives, passion, and wants. Over time the struggles immigrants have to face once they get here has increased and teachers and school need to keep up with the changes so they are able to help the students of these families. Most of the issues immigrant students face that would be helpful if teachers knew are the difficulty of growing up with a parent that have a high school or lower education lever acquired outside of the USA, cultural barriers, and the difficulty of helping out in the family. If teachers knew the struggles immigrant students face they are more likely to sympathize and try to help the student …show more content…
In the novel El Norte by Ronald Takaki says, “Mexicans saw America as a land of opportunity” and many Mexicans like most immigrants as they “heard a lot about the united states it” became their “dream to come here” (Takaki). Immigrants who come to the USA have been dreaming about living “The American Dream” and being able to become successful in life. The American Dream to most immigrants means that life in America is going to be better, wealthier and completer for everyone, with opportunity to be successful and wealthier in life regardless of your social class. Although these immigrants immigrate to the United States of America in hopes of a better life the struggle they face getting here isn’t easy and once they get here they have to face the reality that The American Dream isn’t so real. On top of that they are mistreated by Americans. When these immigrants came with high expectation or hopes to change their life but “white labor unions jealously protected the skilled jobs by creating a two-tiered labor market that reflected a racial division” (Takaki). This is when immigrants get a wakeup call that The American Dream doesn’t exist so they give and since they are already here try to work hard so they are able to survive here in the USA. Over time going through the struggles to survive in a country where they thought they would be successful they give up on a lot of things one which is the …show more content…
Many immigrant students have parents who are very strict and most have been raised in a religious or traditional house hold generation after generation and because of this most of these students struggle to find a balance in trying to fit in and keep their family values as well. In most culture men are superior to women and is exemplified in the house these students grow up seeing this and when it comes to classrooms young girls are most of the time afraid to voice their opinion or raise their hand to answer or ask question because this is how it is in the house. These students get bullied for always being afraid or because of the traditional or religious way they have to dress. In the article Blot Out by Colleen Kinder it states, “Outside is the sphere of Egyptian men. Men run markets, crowd alleys, fill every subways car but the very middle one, marked by a huddle of headscarves” and women have to at all times dress in “Niqab a headdress that covers not just the hair, but the face, ears and neck” or “Burka” which is exactly like the Niqab but the Burka doesn’t show the eyes (kinder). This shows that in most cultures that students are raised in the ladies don’t have much of freedom or choice and students who grow up in these house hold have a hard time not getting bullied at school. Teachers need to be educated about the different