Cameron Meh Kashani Immigration

Immigrants coming to the United States in the mid-century believed in the American Dream, that anyone could be successful in America and anything was possible. Unfortunately, their hopes would quickly be dashed when they would realize things rarely work out that way. In Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, the main character, Ni Kan, has a mother who has fallen victim to that belief. She overlooks her daughter’s own wishes and attempts to mold her into the prodigy she longs for.

Sally takes a big risk immigrating to Canada. She leaves her relatives, culture, and language behind in China. Sally meets a kind elderly couple, Elizabeth and Joe who invite her to their apartment for a cup of tea and watch the fireworks. They are generous and even offer her a free refurbished vacuum. However, the conversation becomes stressful for Sally when Joe judges single mothers in his apartment building, “ ‘Do they know it’s their responsibility to educate their kids? Especially, some of them don’t even go to work, they live on welfare’ “ (38). Although Sally could have simply ignored Joe’s comments, she “decides to take a chance” (39). This is a significant moment in the text because Sally risks losing her friends and being misunderstood. This is a very fearful situation for an immigrant living in another country because it can make her feel isolated. In response, Sally tells Elizabeth and Joe that she is divorced and single mother. In regards to single mothers in general, “Perhaps the single mothers in your building have circumstances you don’t know about. Perhaps they are struggling against their personal crises. Perhaps they need advice, just as I did with the vacuum cleaner” (42).

Personal accounts from immigrants preserving through the endless hardships are the living proof that the American Dream is achievable. Their accounts prove that the dream is only achieved because of the toil throughout the immigrants’ lives. Richard Todd describes “a man who embodies American opportunity” (90). This man immigrated from Korea to start his own software company in America. Todd describes his meeting with the Korean immigrant who had recently made the business a publicly traded company. The enthusiasm of the immigrant accurately conveys the dedication he has toward his ultimate goals (Todd 90). The Korean man was able to be successful due to his extensive work in the field of technology. He lives the American Dream of beginning with nothing rising up in the ranks of

During the summer after I turned thirteen, I went on a vacation that changed my entire perspective on life. “Americans are so spoiled.” I remember hearing my mother proclaim this numerous times growing up. I would shake my head or roll my eyes every time, since I never quite understood what it meant. Of course, I had nothing to compare it to. I grew up in the suburbs in a middle class family. I never wanted for anything. I heard the stories of my mother and her siblings growing up; they lived in filth, they occasionally skipped meals, all seven kids slept huddled together on concrete floors. I heard those stories as if she was saying, “…I walked a mile to school, uphill both ways…” I never could have imagined the reality of what the stories truly meant until I visited my birthplace, the Philippines, for the first time.

Characters in this book must make many difficult decisions in order to deal with their debilitating poverty. While growing up in Honduras, Lourdes glimpsed images of the U.S. on television as most young children in other countries do, and starting at a young age decided she wanted a piece of the so-called “American Dream” for herself. She was enthralled by what she saw, like

The American Dream has been drilled into the heads of almost all Americans and quite a few foreigners. The idea is that “Every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative”. The most common misconception foreigners have about America, is that the streets are paved with gold and poverty does not exist, when in reality the streets are not paved at all. As an American citizen, I cannot full-heartedly believe that people are determined by the country they were born into because I believe that if someone is determined enough to succeed, such a person will. Living in a third world country undoubtedly has its setbacks but it is not a set determination of one’s fate. The essay, “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave” by Mac McClelland fully supports the idea that people have to fight for what they desire in life, while the other essay’s “My Summer at an Indian Call Center” by Andrew Maran, and, “The New Mecca” by George Saunders suggest that success is determined by place of birth. Although the essays disagree about the foundation of success, they have many similarities regarding how people’s identities are affected by demanding jobs. All three essays demonstrate that the workers’ identities are distorted because they are forced to sacrifice their own wants and needs, and to adopt an identity according to their companies’ preference, so that the shoppers, tourist etc. will be satisfied with the customer service

“A women forced into prostitution by her own laziness”.That’s what a girl doesn't imagine as their american dream to have to be forced into a job no one wants to do.”We trample friends,relatives,and strangers who get in the way of our achieving it”.Families in america would like the perfect family with no arguing and to not have any unexpect people to get in our way of achieving our goal.

The story presumably exploits the struggles and hardships of immigrants in America. Jurgis and co. come to America believing the promises of high wages and good happy living. From the start, they carry on an unshakable faith in this “American Dream” this idea that hard work and morality will gain material success and happiness. As the family

A huge number of immigrants rush to this nation consistently. Some lawfully, others illegally. while others come to search out the "American Dream." To be an American means numerous things. It implies that you are a piece of one of the best nations in the entire world. It helped me to remember how my family moved to America to look our own "American Dream." TV and social media has truly solid impacts on children like the protagonist. He believed that if he interprets the "family" in the TV,everyone would like him, and i think that money also played huge role in this story. because the protagonist believed the if he had that kind of money him and his family wouldn't be living like this indeed like the once he sees on the tv. Like the show

“Sahaj.” My mom began to speak. “We need to move to America. Dad just got a job there and we will be leaving Friday. It was Wednesday. I cried and sobbed and begged. Just to avoid change. I wanted to stay, I wanted to be with all my friends and not move to a strange foreign land, I didn’t want to leave New

This simple statement made by June from the story quite successfully summarizes her mother’s idea of the opportunities available in America. For June, her mother decided this meant she would become a child prodigy. Excited for all that can be

One of the greatest country in the world, often referred as the land of opportunities, the United States of America is a melting pot. Immigrants from around the globe seek for an opportunity to get a visa to enter the United States legally. Regardless of the visa (student, business, travel) immigrants ultimate ‘American Dream’ is to acquire permanent residency (Green Card) or US Citizenship. While most try to enter America legally, the visa process is excruciating and the stamping is never guaranteed.

As a child born in America, the ‘American Dream’ is a concept many individuals take for granted; it is the belief that anyone can achieve their own form of success, despite their cultural backgrounds. My mother immigrated to America in pursuit of the ‘American Dream,’ her sacrifices and risk-taking are evidence that one’s success is achieved by a motivated spirit and not by chance. After years of building her foundation and taking rigorous steps to entrepreneurship, my mother became the owner of Golden Lotus.

In one of the short stories that we read this semester by Amy Tan called “Two Kinds” shows a family that strongly believes in the American dream. In “Two Kinds”, the mother is an immigrant who fled from China in hopes of having a better life in America. As we all know, for millions of immigrants, America is known as the land of opportunity where anyone and everyone could become whatever it is he or she wanted to be. The story revolves around the daughter of a Chinese Immigrant who very much wants her daughter to be a successful women. Amy Tan shows in the story the challenging lives that immigrants face when moving to a new country. The theme shows the protagonist’s conflict with her mother on the type of daughter her mother wanted her to

The classic immigrant story; A person immigrates from their mother country to the U.S. with nothing but the clothing on their back and an insatiable craving for the American dream. They work hard at tedious, entry-level jobs with minimal pay and eventually clamber their way out of obscurity and poverty, through sheer will and hard labor, to become a true American. This narrative has been spun a thousand times and will be spun a thousand times more in the future and for a good reason. This is a common literary trope that holds true for many immigrants, but the question is how? How are transnational immigrants able to succeed in America? Michelle Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven explains that this success comes at a great cost. To be successful in immigrating to America, you must abandon all aspects of your mother country and create a new self-identity. This price of accepting or rejecting a totalitarian-like form of assimilation is highlighted by three protagonists in the novel, Boy, Kitty, and Clare Savage.