Immigration and Culture Change:
Introduction and Literature Review: For my research paper; I decided to focus on how immigrants adapted to a new culture, a new life. Being that my parents are immigrants, who came to this country to provide a better life for their children I thought this was something I could dig deeper into. Most immigrants go to a new country, or the United States in particular in hopes of change, in hopes of something better. According to a Sage Journal the estimated foreign- born population was at 32.5 million, which makes up for 11.4% of the total population. (Immigrants in America: Who are they, and why do they Come? Mary V. Alfred) Another part of the transition is education and finding a means of supporting …show more content…
The children of immigrants compose another 37.1 million people, which is 12% (The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine) . In order to collect the evidence or data myself; I would find a group of people who are immigrants or born from immigrant parents, and ask them select questions. Why did their parents or they move to this country? What was it that motivated them to think that the United States was the country that could give them what they were looking for in order to progress? What are/were some of the struggles they needed to overcome in order to get here? What was their transitional process? How did they learn to adapt, and meld their culture with the new one that they now live …show more content…
state, town, or county) and depending on what the numbers say; I would wonder and ask as to why was this location the place that these families decided to place their roots and essentially start over? When it comes to the children from these immigrant families, the questions would revolve on how they feel with people who are “different” from them? Some hispanic countries are more ahead in terms of material that is taught, do these school adapt to the children from different countries? Do they need to learn how to swim in this new pond on their own? In my experience my parents are immigrants, and even though I was born here and was raised here; I had to learn that my culture is completely different from the majority around me, I would even have to deal with being treated different. So how would these students learn that their cultures and the other ones around them are different but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with that? How would they deal with being treated
Introduction and Literature Review: For my research paper; I decided to focus on how immigrants adapted to a new culture, a new life. Being that my parents are immigrants, who came to this country to provide a better life for their children I thought this was something I could dig deeper into. Most immigrants go to a new country, or the United States in particular in hopes of change, in hopes of something better. According to a Sage Journal the estimated foreign- born population was at 32.5 million, which makes up for 11.4% of the total population. (Immigrants in America: Who are they, and why do they Come? Mary V. Alfred) Another part of the transition is education and finding a means of supporting …show more content…
The children of immigrants compose another 37.1 million people, which is 12% (The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine) . In order to collect the evidence or data myself; I would find a group of people who are immigrants or born from immigrant parents, and ask them select questions. Why did their parents or they move to this country? What was it that motivated them to think that the United States was the country that could give them what they were looking for in order to progress? What are/were some of the struggles they needed to overcome in order to get here? What was their transitional process? How did they learn to adapt, and meld their culture with the new one that they now live …show more content…
state, town, or county) and depending on what the numbers say; I would wonder and ask as to why was this location the place that these families decided to place their roots and essentially start over? When it comes to the children from these immigrant families, the questions would revolve on how they feel with people who are “different” from them? Some hispanic countries are more ahead in terms of material that is taught, do these school adapt to the children from different countries? Do they need to learn how to swim in this new pond on their own? In my experience my parents are immigrants, and even though I was born here and was raised here; I had to learn that my culture is completely different from the majority around me, I would even have to deal with being treated different. So how would these students learn that their cultures and the other ones around them are different but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with that? How would they deal with being treated