When we immigrated to another country we adopt a new culture, because we are learning new manners and new things. Being bicultural in the U.S had influenced in who l am, by giving me new opportunities, showing me a new culture, and by teaching me a new language. Being bicultural have affected how I relate to other people, because now lm more confident to talk to other people from other cultures, and countries. I feel relate to some of the situations that people have experienced in the articles that l read because, like some of the people in the article lm an immigrant, lm adopting a new culture, lm learning
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The U.S culture has taught me that it is a responsibility to be on time to an appointment, or to work, or school. Also to give tips when we go to a restaurant, and the English language, etc. Those things have influenced in who I am today because, they have made me mature. Also l have learned how to redoes the other people’s culture, like Indians, Cambodians, Muslims, etc. For example, Indians’ culture, in their country they eat their food with their hands, but many of them still doing that here in the U.S because, they won 't forget about their culture. People from other cultures find it weird, but someone from India explained in from of me that it is how they eat in their country, and because they are used to it, they keep doing it everywhere they go. I respect how they do different things because, that is the way that they are, and it does not make them disrespectful or bad people. Well, on the other hand I have learned that people from different cultures, speak with different accents. I am from Dominican Republic, and the way that l speak English sound different from Americans, Cambodians, Indians, etc. Example from the article Mother Tongue, “Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 5p percent of what my mom says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese” (1). Even when Amy 's mother can speaks English she hasn 't lose her original Chinese accent. Learning a new culture doesn 't mean that we are going to forget our first one because, there is always something that is going to remember us our roots, where we come from, a song, a food, an animal,
The U.S culture has taught me that it is a responsibility to be on time to an appointment, or to work, or school. Also to give tips when we go to a restaurant, and the English language, etc. Those things have influenced in who I am today because, they have made me mature. Also l have learned how to redoes the other people’s culture, like Indians, Cambodians, Muslims, etc. For example, Indians’ culture, in their country they eat their food with their hands, but many of them still doing that here in the U.S because, they won 't forget about their culture. People from other cultures find it weird, but someone from India explained in from of me that it is how they eat in their country, and because they are used to it, they keep doing it everywhere they go. I respect how they do different things because, that is the way that they are, and it does not make them disrespectful or bad people. Well, on the other hand I have learned that people from different cultures, speak with different accents. I am from Dominican Republic, and the way that l speak English sound different from Americans, Cambodians, Indians, etc. Example from the article Mother Tongue, “Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 5p percent of what my mom says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese” (1). Even when Amy 's mother can speaks English she hasn 't lose her original Chinese accent. Learning a new culture doesn 't mean that we are going to forget our first one because, there is always something that is going to remember us our roots, where we come from, a song, a food, an animal,