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    refuses to purchase fish from the supermarket and she uses an abnormal blade to do her cooking. All of this illustrating how perhaps she is not ready to let go of her Indian lifestyle and assimilate. Mrs. Sen is representative of the struggles of assimilation. The inevitability of feeling lonely and facing many restrictions results in Mrs. Sen constantly grasping on to whatever part of India she has left. Without even realizing this she prevents herself from assimilating. She always relies on Mr. Sen

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    Mrs Sen's By Lahiri

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    refuses to purchase fish from the supermarket and she uses an abnormal blade to do her cooking. All of this illustrating how perhaps she is not ready to let go of her Indian lifestyle and assimilate. Mrs. Sen is representative of the struggles of assimilation, which often include feeling lonely and restriceted. She always relies on Mr. Sen, she barely knows anybody, she often misses her family and she cannot seem to make America feel like home. Throughout the story we begin to notice how Mrs. Sen is

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    home. While the stories are fictional, there is a sense of autobiography in Adichie’s work - going through similar situations as her characters do. The stories are about characters being a local of Africa, facing the common themes of oppression, assimilation, and reality. Written in 2009, The Thing Around Your Neck has a more modern setting that immigrants in 2017 could be facing now. Throughout the text, Adichie shows how immigrants are marginalized when attempting to join American culture and society

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    Cultural Assimilation

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    leave their own land. Eventually, many of them accepted and adapted the new cultures of the European-American’s and accepted their religions as well. Assimilation is the ability to process and accept a different culture and become part of it by being loyal and faithful to this new culture. There are many factors that might help individuals in assimilation into a different culture. One is misunderstanding non-verbal signs and symbols, which means lack of understanding of a group of signs and symbols,

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    Sacrifice People wonder what it would be like for aliens to come to Earth. Being bombarded with so many new things at once would overwhelm them. It would be difficult for the aliens to assimilate within human society. However, that experience is what immigrants face all the time when coming to a new country. In How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, a family from the Dominican Republic escapes to the United States as immigrants. In the family, two of the four sisters named Yolanda and Carla have

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    research idea began and why it was carried out. Chapter two continues to review important theories regarding race, assimilation, and ethnicity. In this chapter assimilation is defined in a scholarly manner and the authors shares with the reader the different factors that many argue affects how Mexican Americans assimilate. Some of the major factors are believed to be structural assimilation, contact with other groups, ethnic identity, and political attitudes.

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    Assimilation Theory

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    concepts that I have learned from class is Assimilation Theory. This theory is based on the adaptation that a certain ethnic group goes through in order to fit in and survive in the new dominant society. For example, according to the book the United States in known to be a predominantly white cultural society, therefore many ethnic groups from all over who choose to come to the U.S often have to assimilate and adapt to the social and cultural norms. Assimilation theory affects many ethnic groups in sense

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    Hunger Short Story

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    that is often left out, the voice of the internal and external struggle that immigrant parents face. An immigrant parent will be faced with more difficulty to assimilate to their new environment or in the case of Min they will reject the ideas of assimilation, they create their own world in which their culture and self’s remains intact. This leads me to wonder why else someone would not wish to assimilate and what obstacles come with rejecting their new environment. Although it is not explicitly stated

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    The ability to understand other’s differences is what we call acceptance. Accepting a person or a situation for exactly what it is rather than trying to manipulate it into what you think it needs to be is a way to happiness. The main idea of Sherman Alexie’s story entitled “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is not let anyone or anything control, limit, repress or discourage you from being your true self because only you can determine who you truly are as a person. Specifically in this story, the main

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    Cultural Assimilation

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    With globalization and people’s living quality advancing dramatically, every year, American universities welcome tens of thousands of international students from all over the world. The land of freedom and justice has opened its doors to those who seek new options and better opportunities and sometimes it asks for certain changes and adjustments fir those who come to study aboard. When these international students pursues higher education in US, fulfilling their life experience and learning something

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