Sunday, October 26, 2008

Immigration, 11/14

Read several of the stories on the following website:


After reading these stories, respond to the following question using a comment to this post:
  1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: It is easy to become a part of the American culture if you are from a different culture.
Explain your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with this statement. Use personal examples as well as examples from the immigration stories.

After creating your own comment, respond to at least two other comments.

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that we make it hard for immigrants to get all the things they need to become a citizen, or even just get into the United States. Also, even when they do get into the united states legally, they get the worst jobs that have bad pay because people are judging them. When people immigrate here illegally, from my understanding, they try to come here legally for jobs, and they're denied entrance or something, so they resort to coming here illegally. When they do come here and stay illegally, if they get caught we deport them, so there's really no easy way for them to come here. Also, because of where they came from people judge, not all, but some, and because of that judgment it makes it hard for immigrants to fit in and bond with us.

Anonymous said...

It is not easy to immigrate from a differiert country

Anonymous said...

I have to disagree because I think that it is very hard to fit into the American culture. I myself am a legal immigrant from Vietnam. It is hard to fit in. Especially with the language, traditions, and even sometimes the food might not be the same. I actually still have trouble adjusting English sometimes because I have to say lots of my English grades and the way I speak is never proper and I have trouble in it. So I think it is pretty hard to adjust in America if you are from anywhere out of the country.

Anonymous said...

To Brennan,
I totally agree with you. You are right that immigrants get judged because they are not american and they don't have the better jobs or at least a lot of them because they are black, asian, or mexican, etc......

Anonymous said...

To David: I totally agree with everything you said. =D

Anonymous said...

i agree it is probably very hard to adjust to american life if u are an illegal or legal immigrant with everything that you used to have in your old country.

Anonymous said...

To Kyle,
I have to say that I do agree with you. It is hard for immigrants to fit in because they are worried they might be illegal with out knowing or they get teased because they are black or asian or mexican or english.

Anonymous said...

I agree with david

Anonymous said...

To Ryanc,
Yeah I agree with you because it can be very hard to fit in with a culture that you might not even heard of. Like the language would be hard and the time. Big time change is always really different if you come from somewhere way far away like Asia.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I definitely agree with the things that have been said. It must be hard to adjust from the food where you came from, to the food here. Also, learning English can not bet easy, even I struggle sometimes with it. I've also heard that English is the hardest language to learn.

Anonymous said...

to brennan: like david said it is hard to find good jobs with good or even enough pay for their house or food and they do get judged which is unfair.

Anonymous said...

To Kyle: Yeah, you're absolutely right. I totally agree.

Anonymous said...

I agree with kyle

Anonymous said...

I disagree because if you are from a different country and you come to America, people could be racist and kind of like make fun of you. I also disagree because what if you dont know how to speak english and you are foreign, it would be hard to fit because you dont know how to speak english. For example what if i am from a different country and i dont know how to speak english, I would have a hard time to talk to people.

Anonymous said...

To Tyler,
Right on I am totally with you.

Anonymous said...

I also totally agree with you brennan because it is hard to get immigrants to become a citizen.

Anonymous said...

I don't think it would be easy to immigrate from some were else you would haft to got to no now lang and others.

Anonymous said...

I agree with you kyle because it would be hard to fit in and what if you are a immagrint that would be hard.

Anonymous said...

I agree with you ryan because it is hard for a immagrint to fit in in all cases like speaking and trying to fit in.

Anonymous said...

To Tyler: I agree with you. Learning English would have to be hard. I mean it's even a challenge for people from English-speaking countries. I know I struggle with the proper way to use words sometimes.

Anonymous said...

hey everyone i also agree with all of you people i do think it is hard to come to america and try to get a ob and get used to all the things and sometimes it can be sad cause you are leaving some of your family behinde and that can break peoples heart.

Anonymous said...

To Austin,
Sorry man I have to say that I disagree with you. I think it is kind of tough to get used to a whole different world and place :(

Anonymous said...

I agree with brennan

Anonymous said...

Dear Nicole

i just finish reading your blog and i just wanted to say it was awesome!!! and i am really looking forward to what you write next.

Anonymous said...

To Nicole: That's what I'm saying, that it IS hard to become a citizen, I never said it was easy. =D

Anonymous said...

To Nicole,
Awesome I agree with you and that is cool because it is hard to immigrate from all of this.

Anonymous said...

brennan do you think immigaration is good

Anonymous said...

I agree with ryan hi

Anonymous said...

Nicole: I really do think that immigration is a good thing. I mean if someone is an illegal immigrant I totally understand the reason for why they may have come here. Do you think immigration is good?

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