This novel, presents a comprehensive understanding of view of immigrant status in the U.S. particularly the state of Southern California where Ika was is settled. She is a committed Filipina mother who has two sons; this story shows that Ika is deeply rooted in American society and she has become helpless and cannot control her son’s behavior that is becoming increasingly violent day by day. This research analyzes a particular theme in Brian Ascalon Roley’s novel American Son and the selected theme for this essay colonialism. In relation to it, this essay considers how Ika is straddling two different cultures being a transnational Filipina American and her preference to choose one world out of these two different worlds.
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That is why Ika’s brother wrote her in a letter that we thought you will become a nun but you turned out to be American instead of become nun and staying in your own country Philippine (Roley 135). In modern literature, the term is understood as the Americanization process through which are approved by the American cultural values in other countries.
Ika took the process of Americanization as the standardization and universalisation of all aspects of social life; however, the degree of Americanization is different in both countries. In some Philippine, it is obvious and pervasive, in others less noticeable. In the U.S., it is readily perceived value, whereas in others they actively avoid and beware of as a threat to traditional values of the …show more content…
The author shows Ika’s transnational identity as visible sometime and sometimes as invisible in this novel, because her American identity has not meliorated her circumstances. Her perception developed from transnational identity based on cultural values of both countries is result of American colonialism. It shows that migration can be beneficial for both countries, labor-exporting countries as well as for their decision (Gardner n.p.). For an individual country, export of labor is an important source of currency into the country. Country regularly comes in the form of transfers to families and returning workers from abroad Working abroad in the labor process, acquire new skills, experience, knowledge, which is used for repatriation, increasing productivity of labor. Countries importing labor, decide first task of reducing the cost of production. Immigrant workers receive significantly lower wages than local workers, thus reducing production costs receive and improve the competitiveness of national products on the world market. If you import skilled labor, the country reduced the costs of its preparation. However, labor migration can have negative consequences. Among the negative effects of labor migration should be called; such as, trends in consumption growth earned abroad funds and desire to hide income obtained, brain drain and in some cases lowering the
Post colonialism is …show more content…
That is why Ika’s brother wrote her in a letter that we thought you will become a nun but you turned out to be American instead of become nun and staying in your own country Philippine (Roley 135). In modern literature, the term is understood as the Americanization process through which are approved by the American cultural values in other countries.
Ika took the process of Americanization as the standardization and universalisation of all aspects of social life; however, the degree of Americanization is different in both countries. In some Philippine, it is obvious and pervasive, in others less noticeable. In the U.S., it is readily perceived value, whereas in others they actively avoid and beware of as a threat to traditional values of the …show more content…
The author shows Ika’s transnational identity as visible sometime and sometimes as invisible in this novel, because her American identity has not meliorated her circumstances. Her perception developed from transnational identity based on cultural values of both countries is result of American colonialism. It shows that migration can be beneficial for both countries, labor-exporting countries as well as for their decision (Gardner n.p.). For an individual country, export of labor is an important source of currency into the country. Country regularly comes in the form of transfers to families and returning workers from abroad Working abroad in the labor process, acquire new skills, experience, knowledge, which is used for repatriation, increasing productivity of labor. Countries importing labor, decide first task of reducing the cost of production. Immigrant workers receive significantly lower wages than local workers, thus reducing production costs receive and improve the competitiveness of national products on the world market. If you import skilled labor, the country reduced the costs of its preparation. However, labor migration can have negative consequences. Among the negative effects of labor migration should be called; such as, trends in consumption growth earned abroad funds and desire to hide income obtained, brain drain and in some cases lowering the