Morray Barber Analysis

I was honored to meet Jacques Benninga, Morray Barber, and Frank Vawter. These guest speakers gave us the privilege to listen to a brief story of how they immigrated to the United States. I was curious to see the different ways that people do it to come to America. I was impressed with Mr.Benninga story of how his family came to the United State. Mr.Benninga family decided to come to the United States after Holland was attacked by German. His family had to get a ship and sail to London. I was able to relate to Mr.Benninga story because my family went through the same situation. Our families came to the United State to escape violence and seek for better opportunities. Indeed, I was shock with Mr.Barber strong belief in religion. I was eager to listen about his faith in god and how Orthodox practice their religion. I was happy to see Mr.Barber bring some object to the class that are important in his religion. Frank Vawter shared with the class a brief story about his religion freedom and his American culture that he had little connection but consider himself in the American culture. I was curious to hear about Mr.Vawter way of seeing religion and his culture perspective. Mr.Benniga went through many crisis during the time he came to …show more content…
He identify himself with the American culture but often has a hard time describing his rituals and practices. As an American he says he didn’t grow up to doing certain rituals and having a religion belief. His parent never obligated him to belong to a religion. “Religion life often is not prominently displayed in American daily life.” (Hanson, 2011, pg.93) Frank Vawter childhood experience relates to the text because this is exactly how Frank felt about not growing up to religion practices. However, Murray Farber experience in his childhood contradicts what the text say because in his life religion was always important and a