“Where are you from?” is a common question people ask if you look ethnically mysterious. Being a different race with unique facial features shows you are, not what they call in the United States “American”. Evelyn Alsultany was born and raised in New York City. Her ethnicity is Arab from her father's side and Cuban from her mother's side. She describes the social issue, she confronts the way people approach her creating assumptions, consequently making her feel excluded from her cultural background.
For example, Maisami felt no good toward her Iranian family. She was americanized and nothing like them. Maisami felt like she has to be more Iranian to fit in with her family. Toward the end of Maisami’s story she asks her mother, “Mom, am I Iranian or American?” and her mother tells her “you have to look at yourself in order to find out who you are - it's not where you are from that defines you”.
Many of the Indians living here approach life with the attitude that “Indians don’t get to realize our dreams. We don’t get those chances. Or choices. We’re just poor. That’s all we are” (Alexie 13).
Also like I mentioned before about race, race, race is another aspect that identifies one’s origin of birth, such as let’s say someone from the USA, Canada, Nigeria, Mexico is known
I am half Mexican and half Ecuadorian. I live in a household with my mom, three sisters, and one younger brother. My parents divorced when i was nine years old and for me it was one of the hardest experiences i had ever been through. I am usually always happy and smiling and laughing. I 'm very loud
“America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand”(Truman). Nearly everyone has an individual definition of what it means to be American. It seems, however, that many have a relatively generic definition and often have a “work hard, play hard” mentality, and some believe all it takes to achieve the American Dream and to be American is to put your head down, work hard and get lucky. However, it is much deeper than that. Being American is defying people's expectations with bravery and boldness and achieving your goals regardless of obstacles you face in life.
As a child of immigrant parents, my formative years in elementary and middle school were shaped by two important factors: the environment in which I lived and my background. My parents worked hard to settle into a new life in a foreign country to provide better opportunities for our family. This meant that we had to be flexible about where we lived due to relocating for jobs, and fluid about our ideas of culture. I recall the daunting nature of moving to a new city, twice, as a child. The prospect of leaving everything that was familiar to me and forming new friendships in an unfamiliar environment was a challenge.
American Experience Well, as many of you might already now, I am here today to give you all some basic information about the USA and the daily life in the states. You all just saw a video with typical American things to give you all a first impression about the daily life in America. Content: 1.
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” Abraham Lincoln was a true American. To me, being American means honoring entirety our role in a society that is completely unrestricting of whatever our pursuit of happiness is. It is the believe in the fact that America is still the greatest economical, religious, social, freedom from persecution model the world has ever known.
When I came to America, I had to go through much struggle. First and the most important was that I did not know how to speak English. Apart from this I was very shy, so I didn’t communicate with people frequently. Growing up in America and being a son of two Indian parents, I never felt truly American or Indian. I spoke Punjabi at home, but was educated in English so I had difficulty managing two languages.
The book Speaking American: A History of English in the United States by Richard Bailey was a rather interesting read. The book, overall, provided an abundance amount of information about the history of the language majorly spoken in the United States of America today. If one needed to do research about American English for their history class, this would be the perfect source of information that dates all the way back to even before the 1650s. However, obtaining the knowledge is not as simple as the title may suggest; personally, for me, the author used words that were harder to understand and connect. The brilliant factual qualities were definitely dulled out by the occasional difficult to understand word choice in this book.
Living by the equator for the first year of my life. Moved back when I was in 6th grade, never had gotten use to the stormy weather. I am what I am. I am Chinese, Danish, Polish and Singaporean. I’m a white boy, a udlanding, a olifier, and a bi-ren.
What makes someone special? What about you is unique? How do you stand out from a crowd? For me, I was adopted from China.
I am an international student from Vietnam who came to the United States to pursue higher education. I was brought up in a very unique culture and family traditions, and this has had a strong influence on my beliefs and mindsets. Together with all the experiences that I have been through so far in my life, I have formed some social and personal identities that I might or might be aware of. Such identifies are an important tool that can stay with me and remind me every day of who I am and my origin.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand someone until you really experience their life. I discovered this first hand just last year in a life changing decision that left me enlightened, grateful, shameful, but most importantly a better person. This move was going to a basketball preparatory school and being one of the only Caucasians in the whole program and the school we attended. I learned so much on microstructural, mesostructural and macrostructural levels and what began to seem normal to me changed so much due to a new type of culture. Everything was different, from the way I was with my new friends to my relationship with teachers at school and even the way people looked at me as we travelled to different places for different tournaments.