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Be Good Little Migrants Uyen Nh Loewald Summary

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Migration is a controversial issue which is rarely talked about throughout the worldwide news. The current increase in migrants in Australia from other countries of the world obligates a progressed argument and debate on the ongoing controversy. It is a subject which is challenging to reconnoitre because of the deficiency of solid statistics and the majority of subjective indication and evidence. As now stated, migration has fundamentally contained a continuous, endless movement of migrants from worldwide countries, which a large number migrate looking for protection from wars and hostilities or from starvation and famine even some whom privilege the goodness of shelter and refuge. This essay will explore and convey the changing attitudes of …show more content…

It is simple and monotonous poem being very repetitive and using manageable language. These techniques and features emphasize the importance of the poem. It outlooks an optimistic, undesirable influence of migration to the Australian civilization and culture and deliberates experiences of the people who are incoming and settle down in Australia and how the people of Australia did and still are welcoming and warming the people into the country. There are lessons to learn from Uyen Loewald’s poem that teach and deliver the knowledge of the experience of being a migrant in the Australian civilization even still in the twentieth and twenty first century. Migrants must give up everything when they leave their own country, they must leave behind their duties, philosophy, morals and principles just to have a slight advantage to fit and blend in to Australia, they are viewed as mediocre until they do entirely balance out with the rest of the Australian population. “Just display your gratitude But don’t be heard, don’t be seen . . . ….in time you’ll reach excellence, just waste a few generations”. It seems to say will under no circumstances fit in until they give up everything, they will not have sense of …show more content…

Nothing in the story has negative emotions or feelings towards her family’s migration to Australia, she has a more negative outlook on her birthplace stating ‘I feel scared to return to my village, I do not want to visit. But I would like to visit Thailand again’. This story being very positive and conveying the changing attitudes of the migrant experience in australia. She draws in the attention by giving a brief history on herself and her family then goes into detail about her migrant experience allowing us readers to imagine a positive experience instead of a negative

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