Summary Of The Immigrant Advantage By Claudia Koalker

Claudia Kolker’s book “The Immigrant Advantage” (Oct 2011) is a book that touched on the advantages of immigrants coming to the U.S. bringing along their customs, religions, teachings, and traditions. Kolker wants to inform readers that there are good things that come from immigrants like food, fashion, vocabulary, and customs. Kolker points out in her book that there is many ways that immigrants benefit to succeed from others in everyday life. For Example, “The Vietnamese Money Club” (Kolker 19) it is said that to start a money club you need people that you trust from 3-6 people at the least. They all need to pitch in a certain amount of money aside and who turn it is first they get all the money. The catch is when you get the money you still got to abide by the rules and still pitch in the money only a percentage of the pie. They repeat this every month, year, weeks, and

customs and some immigrant customs just a brief summary usually a male finds a female that he knows well and when the male is ready and the female is ready the male proposes to the female and later on they get married. In other customs there are many other ways to get started and ready for marriage some customs usually your parents would find you a bride or a husband which is not custom to the U.S. customs. Kolker States “there’s something outright improper to us about the notion scouting brides for her grown son” (Kolker 62). Assistant marriage is common in India, Pakistan, and Asia. This indicates that there is a lot of diversity of different types of people in the world. The “Immigrant Advantage” also talks about the Mexican immigrants how it is the poorest and least educated community in Chicago. Many families can’t afford health care and can’t treat simple stuff like asthma. Kolker states “it’s been linked to higher rates of smoking- a known asthma trigger. Physiologically, it alters the endocrine, immune, and nervous system” (Kolker