Author: Jennaly

My research is about the relation ship between immigration and identity loss and how it effects them and the next generations. I know many immigrants come into the U.S  and when they get to live in the U.S they get used to the different culture, they learn the language, they adapt to certain differences to help them move forward for a better future. However, I know many kids from immigrant parents that were born in the U.S and most of their parents seem to forget their roots, they don’t teach their children their native language, or they adapt to the American culture so precisely that their children don’t know anything about their parents backgrounds. I have had experience with this issue with a friend of mine that always complains about the way she can’t speak Spanish or how her parents didn’t bother to teach her Spanish. She states she wishes to be able to communicate with people in Spanish. And if parents do teach their children their ethnic language, the children are embarrassed to speak in their native language. This affects their next generation because in society if you look a certain way there is a lot of racial profiling, for example with a Hispanic person you either look too Hispanic to be considered American or in the Hispanic community you are too white washed to be fully Hispanic. A question I have is, why does coming into a new culture and learning new things drift some away from their own roots? To the parents who immigrated to give their future generation a better life, why not try to keep culture, teach your child your mother language, teach them to be proud of where their parents are from? Is loss of identity when it comes to immigrants common? If so, do most immigrants teach their children or educate their children on pride in the person they are and the place they came from? I expect to find different stories of some of the children that came from immigrant parents and their experience with identity loss, I expect to find information on the percentage of immigrants that keep culture and tradition to the percentage of the ones experienced identity loss and how it effect them and their children.

When I was a kid something I was very interested in was becoming a flight attendant. The thought of being able to fly and go to new places really made me think becoming a flight attendant was the best job in the world. I am not interested in becoming a flight attendant because I feel like when I was younger I didn’t realize the work they go through and how scary it is to think that in a plane the unthinkable can happen. I was just stuck in the fact they get to travel to places and have nice uniforms. The education system provided me with classes that sparked an interest in science, it made me realize that what I want to be in the future required science so I was aware and I paid extra attention in science classes and began to enjoy taking science. The interest I had as a child didn’t die I think. It is just the amount of knowledge I had of becoming a flight attendant but I still have a lot of respect and admiration for flight attendants. The questions I had made me learn more about science and how it plays a part in the field I want to potentially work in and helped me gain more knowledge in the science subject.

 

Reading “ a talk to teacher” we can tell James Baldwin really wants teachers to take their Job to another level not only teaching the children about American history but to teach them about the standards and how they are not permanent but they have power to change to change the world, they want them to teach children that they are their own person and they need to find within themselves that they can be bigger,he wants the children to understand that if they have a curiosity to look into it there is no stop or no limit to learning new things, he wants teachers to teach about the struggle and the bad about society. By saying “the world is larger” I think James Baldwin was trying to tell the readers there is more to what you learn. There is a wider field in learning outside of a person’s home school or any place he is trying to say the world is big and what you learn has way much more to it than you think. Something I wish was taught to me was in high school. I wish I had more knowledge on what to expect in my tradition from high school to college, like how do internships work, for the ones who don’t know what major to choose I wish we had a little more knowledge on fields we can work in before entering college so we can have an idea and not just jump into a major because of total interest and end up hating it.I wish the schools start teaching kids how to deal with a failure not only in the house but I feel like students are pressured to go through school with high grades and their mental health isn’t the biggest priority students are giving work after work after work and end up overworking themselves this also would lead into time management basic skill students would need to succeed in college that they are just expected to adjust to a very different environment by themselves.