Pursuing the American dream

Migrating from a country to another isn’t as easy as it seems. Leaving your family and friends, can be hard because you don’t know when you are going to see them again. The destination country where you go has a different culture; therefore, a different language. However, traveling to a new country also brings new opportunities like finding a better job or education. The United States is one of the most developed countries and it offers many opportunities. People from different part of the world comes to this country in search of “The American dream”. With many people traveling to the United States, each of them brings part of their culture and traditions. Fuchs describes with a metaphor that the “United States ethnicity is like a kaleidoscope because when you look at it, you can see an endless variety …show more content…
The roots from that person might have an influence on others. In the same way, others can influence their culture to their own. Just like Lam describes in the short story about a Vietnamese mother and child that came to America, and the process on how the son got “Americanized”. His mother kept practicing the traditions because she doesn’t want to forget her roots.. As the story progresses, we see how the mother begins to worry because none of the younger generations follow the traditions. As her son hears the talk, he starts to think about it and starts to get fear. This fear it's because he feels that he should continue with what her mother does every morning as a way to remember how she was. Yet he won’t be able to do it because he will hesitate about their traditions, as if they weren’t needed anymore. In the same way, each person will go through this “Americanization” process in different ways. Which means how some people will try to endure the changes while the others start to learn the American values, beliefs and begins their assimilation to the American