My Experience Of Migrating To US

1. I had spent my entire life in my home country, Lebanon. After I moved to the United States in 2013, seeking a better life and a higher quality education, the transition placed an immense amount of pressure and stress on me. I moved from a place where I have a strong support system from family and friends to a place where I do not have any social life. Even though I knew that moving to the United States was a positive life-changing decision, but the idea of uprooting myself from everything I am familiar with to a place where I am not familiar with their culture was very hard on me. Additionally, trying to adjust to new things was not an easy thing to overcome. For this reason, it was difficult for me to assimilate to the new culture, new language, and

Coming to the United States has changed my life. When I was in my country, life wasn't easy for me. My dad used to live in the U.S I was in Dominican Republic. Because my dad was in the U.S it was difficult for me, brother and sister. My mom didn't get pay a lot and food were really expensive. After I came to the U.S I saw a lot change I my life. Many people in my country used to tell me that U.S is one of the best place to live. United States have all the opportunity such as a good education, a lot jobs and easy way to

When moving to a new place, the first thoughts that comes to mind, "Moving to a different school? Meeting new people?" The terrifying thoughts coursed through my mind causing me to freeze in cold sweat thinking of all the horrible things to come with this new chapter of my life. Regardless, I am a fearless adventurer ready to take one a whole new exciting journey to exotic places, experiencing new cultures, meeting different people.

It was my very first time to leave my native land, to migrate to a new country. All I thought about was, that I moving to a better place with a much more superior system. When I first set my foot in this country, I was amazed by the beauty and how developed the U.S. was. I was literally living my dream, and sometimes it seemed impossible to believe, I was living in the most powerful country. Although, I was living my dream until I had to start

I came to US during my 8th grade and that was a life changing moment in my life. It was first time traveling aboard and that also not for a trip but for to permanent settlement. I was nervous my whole time been in the plane that how I will cope up with new environment and with bunch of English speakers. I got more. When it came pilot call for, that it's time to land on the Detroit Airport, tighten your seatbelts and be relax. As soon as the plane landed on American soil, I knew that this was the place where I’d to start a new life. Even though I knew America is the “Land of Opportunity”, everything here seemed so strange to me, the streets, the language and the people that was my first time traveling abroad.

I knew this journey would be very different for me. I was only familiar with one culture and one way of life, being exposed to different cultures only made me more curious and anxious at the same time. Although this was a transition I was looking forward to, there was some sadness in me knowing that I would leave all my friends and some family members behind that

In discussions of diversity and equality, one controversial issue has been the debate of whether or not America cherishes our diversity. On one hand, some say they are unsure about the topic. On the other hand, some people oppose that America does not cherish our diversity. My own view is that America does cherish our diversity, however it’s not a very obvious view for various reasons. Mainly because of how far we’ve come with time, but how over-generalizations has caused us to believe that we don’t. In our society today, we don’t realize the diversity shown within our country, because everything is mainly focused on how we don’t have diversity. This statement, depending on how you view it, is a complete over- generalization. In the article,

I graduated high school back in 1994. I was engaged to be married in just two years, and even though I joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard right after graduation it was only one weekend a month and two weeks out of the year. So I needed a full-time job. A friend of the family knew a guy who was opening a second store, and was going to need a store manager. I took the job and got started. What I didn’t know was the guy I was just hired to work for was a little confused as to what he wanted. I hung onto the job for a little over a year hoping it would turn around but, no dice.

My parents realized the problem and made a bold decision to leave Colombia by moving to the United States, where possibilities were many and success was possible. We were in search of “the American Dream” that every immigrant is trying to live and make into a reality. When we first arrived here in the United States, New Jersey to be precise, I felt, even as a child, that I was in a new world. I felt as if someone woke me up from my nightmare and put me into a better life, as if my eyes were opened because I had been living in a dark room with no light for my entire life. It was so great for me as a kid to witness these extraordinary changes that the United States offered. I felt like I was finally in a place where I

The United States of America is considered a melting pot of heritages and nationalities from all around the world. There is no official language, and no one culture all citizens abide by. Despite the fact that everyone in this country is different from one another, there is still a constant uniform citizen that has a more favorable position. This citizen is white, English-speaking, and somehow always in the front of the public sphere. In the recent years, there has been an increasingly dominant Latino presence in America. Their strength in numbers challenges there being a poster American citizen, and that that citizen will remain white. When working to assimilate to America’s “culture,” Lations seem to believe that there is one America, within which people speak a singular language and experience one culture. The pressure to assimilate stems from the white citizens of the country feeling threatened when there is a new culture and language, which they do not understand. As a result they feel personally threatened by the people who can speak both Spanish and English, and their response response involves marginalization and the obvious exclusion of Latino groups in the United States. There is a phenomenon, cultural citizenship, where Latinos perform their cultural practices to stretch their identity into the states, and practice their right to be authentic members of their community.

I came to the United States on October 1st 2009. As an eight-year-old, I didn’t realize the changes my life was about to go through. I would always dream of coming to the united states because of the amount of opportunities that I could have here, that I could never have in El Salvador. Although, I didn’t comprehend that would mean leaving my whole family and making such a huge change in my life. Growing up in El Salvador I got used to depending on my family and having their support no matter what. After I moved the changes were really hard for me: Not having my family around, learning a new language, and getting used to a new lifestyle; took me some time to get used to.

The second day I found out that the company makes gasket for automobiles, and I felt this job would fit me perfectly. Making gasket for automobiles require hard labor and long working hours, this would make employees become melancholy to work for a long time. I hated my life because of this job, I could not see any future in this company. I could not be satisfied with anything that this job offers me. I saw so many of my friends who came from the refugee camp quieting the job and find another job. However, I could not just quiet my job without getting another because I have families to help who did not have the opportunity to work freely as I am. At one time, I heard taxi drivers make money compared to manufacturing jobs, so I decided to take the class to become a taxi driver. I studied hard to pass this exam and drove around to explore the city of

My experience of moving to the USA included a couple of steps such as preparing, arriving, and adopting. Moving to America was one of the most thrilling and exciting experiences I have ever had in my life. It all started after I graduated from high school. I had always dreamed of going to abroad to study in a better school to be successful in life. My dad was leaving me hints here and there that he was going to send me America for school, but I was sure that it wasn’t going to happen because getting a student visa was tough back then. However, that summer when I saw that letter in my mail from the immigration department of USA for an interview, I was speechless.

I just described my formative experiences, hopefully I could find some website online to answer my question. From the experiment that I transfer to America, I tried to find some information about what kind of thing people should do. According to the music competition I joined, I trying to understand what people should looking for, the fame or something more helpful for themselves? And because I used to give people some one word definition at the volunteer service to the Mexico board, I want to know why people will easily give other a simple definition,while people couldn't be define as one

We live among many different types of cultures which is what makes our society very diverse. Each culture is very different and they each have their own values and norms. Values meaning, “the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.” (Henslin, 2015, p. 49). Each culture has its own expectation of behaving being a norm, meaning “expectations of “right” behavior.” (Henslin, 2015, p.49). When someone breaks a norm they may receive a negative sanction of disapproval but if someone follows the norm they may receive a positive sanction of approval.