Recently I watched the movie, The Namesake that showed various aspects of immigration across family generations. The movie illustrated the in impact of a culture assimilation and identity search of an Indian family.
They are several other points, but the crucial ones that will be discussed in this paper is identity and culture. This paper will focus on the characters and interviewee identified as immigrant and challenges in the new culture. The movie, the Namesake is about an Indian family who live in New Jersey. Ashoke, the father who moved abroad, many years ago is one of the most important characters. Ashoke who is a book lover enjoying reading Nikolai Gogol a Russian writer who he later named his son after. Furthermore, according to …show more content…
Children of immigrant struggle between the” new culture” and the “old culture”. Most Indians tend to pass on their tradition to their children and it is important that the following generation follows their parents' path, so the traditions can be transmitted it to the future generations “Critical examinations of the sociological literature on transnational migration, assimilation, and ethnic and racial identities as well as cultural studies texts are important.” (Chikkatur,2010) Young immigrants tend to assimilate more than the older immigrant therefore it creates conflicts between generations. Combining both cultures or tradition can be a challenging thing to do and require a certain level or expertise of differentiation and not US born children have that ability. In some families, the parents give the children to opportunity to explore and to decide, but in a more traditional oriented family is more complicated. During the interview, Monica talked about her elementary school experience. She said that for the first two years she was not learning much in the classroom. She failed many exams not because she didn’t know the answer, but just because she was not understanding what the assignment was about. The professors who are only English speaker were unable to translate or communicate effectively with her. She had few Hispanic classmates, but none of them were talking to her. At home, she was afraid to talk to her parent about her experience. In case like this it will be preferable to talk to a counselor or the parents about the situation, but the professor and the counselor did not take any
They are several other points, but the crucial ones that will be discussed in this paper is identity and culture. This paper will focus on the characters and interviewee identified as immigrant and challenges in the new culture. The movie, the Namesake is about an Indian family who live in New Jersey. Ashoke, the father who moved abroad, many years ago is one of the most important characters. Ashoke who is a book lover enjoying reading Nikolai Gogol a Russian writer who he later named his son after. Furthermore, according to …show more content…
Children of immigrant struggle between the” new culture” and the “old culture”. Most Indians tend to pass on their tradition to their children and it is important that the following generation follows their parents' path, so the traditions can be transmitted it to the future generations “Critical examinations of the sociological literature on transnational migration, assimilation, and ethnic and racial identities as well as cultural studies texts are important.” (Chikkatur,2010) Young immigrants tend to assimilate more than the older immigrant therefore it creates conflicts between generations. Combining both cultures or tradition can be a challenging thing to do and require a certain level or expertise of differentiation and not US born children have that ability. In some families, the parents give the children to opportunity to explore and to decide, but in a more traditional oriented family is more complicated. During the interview, Monica talked about her elementary school experience. She said that for the first two years she was not learning much in the classroom. She failed many exams not because she didn’t know the answer, but just because she was not understanding what the assignment was about. The professors who are only English speaker were unable to translate or communicate effectively with her. She had few Hispanic classmates, but none of them were talking to her. At home, she was afraid to talk to her parent about her experience. In case like this it will be preferable to talk to a counselor or the parents about the situation, but the professor and the counselor did not take any