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What’s The Key To Immigrant Assimilation?how Tolerant Are You Of Cultural Differences?
Undedr: Culture
as long as people recognize and abide by this Constitution.
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as long as people recognize and abide by this Constitution.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 上午
I think time is the key to the assimilation of immigrants.
One of the joys I’ve experienced in life is learning about and experiencing other peoples cultures. And when it comes to an immigrant population, their customs and the culture they bring with them tend to alter to some degree as the given immigrant population is assimilated. This is something I’ve witnessed in New York, Boston, London, San Jose Costa Rica, Dublin, Montreal and Belfast.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 12:52 上午
the key to assimilation is a common language….english. I respect other cultures and I firmly encourage maintaining the identitiy of ones FORMER culture, but when they come to the U.S., in public they should join the American culture. when they are at home, or with like friends, they can speak what ever language they want, eat what ever food they want, what ever they want. My wife is filipina and she understands this, although our honky friends love Philippine food. If your former country and culture is so great, then why are you here?
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 上午
The key to immigrant assilimation IS tolerance.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 上午
the key to immigrant assimilation is learning the language of your new country and respecting the culture you have come to. you don’t have to give up your culture to do this. i am very tolerant of cultural differences and expect the same.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 上午
Legally!
America is a melting pot!
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 8:26 上午
The movie Gangs of New York addresses your question. While I don’t think that it is a very good movie it serves to illustrate that immigrant assimilation occurs over time and the process is aided by conflict that both changes the immigrant and non-immigrant.
The idea of a melting-pot is so often used that what is over looked is the destructive process of melting itself. All citizens are in the pot and are going to come out differently.
Our Constitution may be able to weather new immigrants, if not, we have to be ready to promote new ideas to improve upon the Constitution.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 下午
One time as a boy (8-9) I was watching t.v. It was a documentary about immigrants and Ellis Island. Well, there was an interview with some really old Italian man who was on a small boat floating in N.Y. harbor. This man during the interview asked the camera man to pan up the small mast of his boat where he was proudly flying a large American flag and underneath the American flag was a much smaller flag of Italy. When the interviewer asked the man about it, the man said that he was and forever will be primarily an American and showed it by the placement and size difference in his flags. This old man was willing to accept his new identity and his new country and not let any other country (even his country of birth) come between his commitment to America. That, in my opinion is a perfect example of a key to immigrant assimilation.
I am very tolerant of cultural differences provided the differences do not undermine American cultural norms. An example of this would be that because they practice genital mutilation in some countries in Africa I would not tolerate for one second that action in America.
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 下午
ok im going to be nice to u even if u was mean to me. I think if ppls wants to b accept then they needs to accept other ppls 2. I don think all ppls needs to conform to 1 way. It should be like hi im maui kapaui an this is who i am an then u says hi im john an this is who i am an then we both say cool. an then we learn about each others an we r like cool. so that’s what i think an then we can b friends right?♥♥♥♥♥
十一月 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 下午
They need to be able to communicate with and respect the host culture.
1 ) speak the common language
2 ) treat others with respect
十一月 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 上午
The reason why I love this country so much is because of all the cultures and languages people brought with them. I also love the customs we have here as well.
The problem is, that some immigrants don’t know how to speak English. I can see why it is a problem, but it doesn’t give anyone a reason to bash someone!
I’m very tolerant of differnt cultures and languages. I love it! I learned so much from people that are waaay different than me. For an example, my fiancee is Turkish, boy I learned soo much. Food, language, culture, music, & religion.
Some people have different views of how “America” is suppose to be. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but some people take way too far and it becomes a racial battle.
I think some illegal immigrants should go home and I think some should earn their rights here. Yea they broke the law, but there are criminals here too that are citizens, that should leave as well. But like I said everyone is entitled to their own opinion! =]
Edited: The guy below couldn’t have said it better!
十一月 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 上午
I don’t really care, everyone is their own person and has the right to live the way they want to… think of it this way, would you like it if someone tried to change who you were??? no, right… so stop trying to change a person just because they are of a different culture… if it pisses people off so much that a person speaks a different language and has a different culture then they should learn about it or just plain ignore it… there is no need for the word “tolerate” in cultural differences, everyone is different and it shouldn’t matter that someone else is different from you, just live and let live…
if america really wanted all those people who don’t speak english to learn it, then they should stop interpreting everything in a different language, make english the official language of the united states, with that said people will eventually try and learn english…
the key to assimilation is learning the language…
十一月 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 上午
The key to immigrant assimilation I consider is acceptance from both parts that there are differences in cultures, both parts need to understand that is not easy to change traditions in one day. Our nation was founded by different cultures and that is why we are great. Every culture contributing to create a great nation, being good citizens and respecting others with different backgrounds.
十一月 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 下午
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
-Mark Twain
I think most people view the world through a peephole and they need to open the door and step outside to see how beautiful it actually is. Too many people place too much value on nationality and race and ethnicity and such things. If we were to view ourselves as PEOPLE only and the World entirely as ours then immigration wouldn’t really be a problem.
十一月 23rd, 2009 at 7:40 下午
I believe the key to assimilation is language. The key to tolerance is usually food. You can’t assimilate if you don’t yunderstand the people in your community. As to tolerance, I believe I am a bit too tolerant. I often being taken advantage. I see peolpe use their culture for their own selfish needs and use their culture for their selfish desire. They would use American culture only when it benefits them, and use their native culture when it’s too their advantage. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, but As a community, I believe we must be far more strict then my personal example. The person immigrants hurt when comes to my tolerance is usually me. I see a potential for far worse when looking at the big picture, and I can take a few hits, but others may not.