Noda The Grandchild Of Immigrants

America is the place that immigrants from all over the world come to get a better life and better opportunities. An Immigrant's mentality towards America is anything is possible but many of their judgements change when they finally get to America. America does not provide access to the American Dream because undocumented residents do not get the same opportunities and the working class is categorized as low income, however there is still access for upper class and the people who get good opportunities for their hard work.

Only certain Americans can achieve the ideal American Dream, such as the upper class. The American Dream to me is to me is the opportunities to stop struggling to get a plate on the table for you and your family to eat

They are classified as servants, or maids sometimes even stereotyped for their race. In “Growing up Asian” Noda the grandchild of immigrants explains that just because you were raised in another country it does not mean that you are not American “My race is a line that stretches across ocean and time to link me to the shrine where my grandmother was raised.” (Noda, 5) Just because she is Japanese- American that does not mean that she is not an American, it just means that she has a different background. She struggled to fit into the “American Lifestyle” that everyone around her lived, but her parents and grandparents made an effort to adjust. In the end of her essay she realizes the true meaning of being an American, which meant trusting the people around you. She learned that to be an American meant to show respect and patriotism to your neighbors so they can show you the same in respect. She goes through new transitions from the beginning of her essay when she thought that America did not treat her well she felt pitiful and out of place. Along her journey of transitioning into an ideal American, her grandparents showed her that she wasn’t the only one adjusting to this new life and she stopped feeling sorry for being a Japanese-American. She ended up feeling lighthearted when she moved into a community that embraced her differences and everyone else’s. She finally realizes the true meaning of being an

The working class is the most populated class and gets very few attention from Government officials. The Government thinks that by giving us jobs that pay the minimum they are allowed to take a third of that money back when we do our taxes. As presented in Wallechinsky essay “ Is the American Dream still Possible” he argues that even if you work at a job for more than 20 years that makes no impact on the government’s decision to replace you with another person when you get hurt. They replace you in a blink of an eye and pay your replacement way less then they payed you so they can save money for their own use. Most of the time they will just give you small amounts of money back to show that you are getting something in return. “After 26 years with the two airlines, his pension was frozen and then taken over by the government. “ (Wallechinsky, 57). You can give your whole life to a job, but when you can’t work for that company anymore they will give you very little to show that they are giving something back. This is how the Government works and always will work, they find loopholes so they can win money back for your time at that company. You can be the hardest worker and be the best at your job and the Government will see you as a threat. Overtime you will realize that all that the Government wants is profit over your hard