Assimilation And Norm Analysis

In the fall off 2008 I found myself sitting in a briefing room experiencing death by PowerPoint, in this three-hour block of instruction were where being instructed on the culture customs norms and laws of the Iraqi people as part of our deployment train up. I would experience this again in 2011, during train up for Afghanistan. Myself and my fellow soldiers were going to a different country that while there may be some similarities to ours in terms of culture, norms, beliefs there for the most part, were differences. As guest we needed to be cognizant of the differences so as not to insult our hosts we followed their customs and rules and not our own that we had brought with us from America. Fly back across the ocean to America and our country …show more content…
That means if you choose to migrate to their country you had better know or learn very quickly their cultural beliefs and norms as in some countries there is a very swift and harsh penalty for not doing so. In Assimilation the incoming individual would forsake their own culture and traditions and practice and follow the host culture traditions, norms and beliefs. This is great for keeping religious identity and a national pride and identity all the same across the board. It may also make dealing with people from different backgrounds slightly easier as everyone should be following the same belief's, customs, practices and traditions. Everyone will tend to speak the same language if not in the home at least for conducting business. The downside is new things are rarely welcomed or accepted inside these types of countries, so you lose out on the joy of different cultures by adopting this harsh of a practice of …show more content…
The country that is accepting the immigrants needs to be aware that they will have their own cultural identities then be accepting of them and not forcing their own cultural upon the immigrants. At the same time, I feel the host country has the right and obligation to protect its own cultural identity and to require an official language that immigrants are required to learn and speak in. Immigrants need to be aware they are entering a new country with a different culture, norms beliefs and they need to do their due diligence and trying to fit in and accept some of the new norms they will be facing and understand that some of their previous tradition may very well be wrong. It is the task of the immigrant to assimilate into the culture of their new home while becoming a part of their new culture and retaining their old when they are not in conflict. It is a very fine line for all parties involved, personally I feel the Immigrant has the bigger obligation to change and they should not insist their new home change to suit