“The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 represents a significant watershed moment in Asian American history.”(C.N. Le.) With the changes in US immigration policy, the second wave of immigration continued from 1965 to the present day. Since the 19th century, Chinese immigration to the United States has undergone major changes. For Chinese families their American dream that earns more money and chases a better life, no matter how it changes, the United States is still the country that Chinese people like.
In 1988, Anna Chen’s parents submitted the immigration documents to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to apply to my friend, Anna Chen and her family, which starts a long time to wait. “I don’t believe that I spend twelve years to wait for this immigration approve. After this long time I wait for, I become an old lady from an energy middle age. But I am also happy to see my older parents and finally, we get united.” she said with a happy smile and her eyes filled with tears. They immigrated to the United States in 2010, Anna feels self-abasement because of her age. “I am 55 years old, not young anymore and I don’t know how to speak English fluently in the United States,” she said with a helpless face. The biggest problem for Anna living in the United States is loneliness. Life is very monotonous. There is only China Town in Oakland she can go. Chinese restaurants are American style and she doesn't even have much money to go to restaurants.
“Due to cultural and linguistic differences, the strange foreign life is not easy, which accompanied by our family sweat and tears”. Anna’s husband and her son have the talent and experience to repair the car but they lack communication with oral English. Anna realized that English as an important communication language. Moreover, if they want to succeed in the United States, there are required to be more than just English. Anna’s family wishes to open an auto repair company but they don’t have the license and certificate. She just wants her children to live more freely in the future. Anna has the hope to fight for, life not lonely anymore. With this hope, Anna goes to the Chinese community to learn basic English everyday time and goes to take care of older people at night to earn some money. Anna encourages her husband and her son to continue work in the other Auto repair company to accumulate their experience. Anna and her husband try their best to let their daughter, son, and daughter-in-law have the opportunity to study at college to get the degree. Her young daughter as a full-time student who has studied for six years to get a master's degree and achieve the Aerospace Engineer certificate. Her daughter-in-law overcomes the language problem and also achieves an auto repair certificate and working in the Toyota company.
Her son not only works with her husband in the auto pair company but he also goes to college to study English. Anna believes that her son would complete his wish in the future.
“After so many years of hard work, the family has finally seen a trace of sunshine. As an immigrant of the older generation, I support them in money, housing, and work.” Anna believes that society is fair, and it is necessary to support each other with family members. A good life is always open for people who are confident, hardworking and kindness.
I always confused a question, why do so many people want to leave their hometown and move to a new place? As I read the book “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson, she wrote that “The Chicago Commission on Race Relation, an investigative body created after the World War I wave of migration, decided to ask migrants why they had left. A few of their responses were these: Some of my people were, persuaded by friends, for better wages, to better my conditions, better living, more work; came on visit and stayed, wife, persuaded me, tired of the South, to get away from the South” (Wilkerson 217).
No matter the immigration or migration, they also want to have more chances to earn more money to get better condition living. They believe that in this land, everyone can realize their dreams through their own efforts. The biggest concern for immigrants is that work is definitely in the first place. The new immigrants require the job is to meet the cost of living, to support a family, the real goal is to have the opportunity to do what they really like, and hope to engage in a lifelong career. Actually, the new immigrant often needs to face a few problems, such as low wages, racial discrimination, and accents stereotypes in the workplace.
The new immigrant and migrations need to find a job as soon as they can, due to language, culture background, lack of academic qualifications and the other reason, many new immigrants will choose to work in low-wage jobs. In the book “The Warmth of The Other Sun”, the character Pershing is a talent and hard-working doctor but he also suffers a lot of unfair treatment at the workplace. The reality is so cruel, this kind of ethnic discrimination not only occurs in black people but also in yellow people. Because of the different skin colors, new immigrants will get some stereotypes in the workplace, and they are difficult to get equal opportunities for promotion. the new immigrant keeps studying English and training as far as they can, but they don’t receive the affair promotion chance because they have suffered accent stereotypes. Some of them graduate in the United States and pass the license text in the workplace, but the employers still express discrimination to the non-native English speaker employee.
More than a hundred years ago, after the Statue of Liberty was established on the small island on the Hudson River in New York Harbor, the world began to have an American dream that people keen and yearn for. This eagerness and expectation have deeply affected everyone that desires to succeed in America, and since then, waves of immigration have flooded into the United States. For example the book “The Distance Between Us” which is an excellent book that shows the American Dream does exist for immigrants. “What is the American dream?” some may ask, We find that the American dream has three different types of meanings through the access of education, freedom, and creation of science.
Access to education here in America is what plays a key role in why the American Dream still exists today. The fact that every child in America is given a chance of education represents the American Dream that we have. Not every country offers education to every child or let alone a free education. Living in America has given people the chance to succeed by offering resources like free community college classes and financial aid to help support college tuition. Having these opportunities can help people who are low income or migrants that do not have the money to succeed like middle or high-class society.
Freedom of speech is also an important factor to become true of the American dream. In the United States, Americans have the freedom to protest and practice the religion that they desire and express their opinions without having to worry about the government imprisoning them for criticism. This alone is enough to appeal to millions of people from all over the world who want to live in America. To have the freedom of
expression for people all over the United States like today. It is part of the great effort of the
generations such as Ida Mae, George Starling, Pershing Foster in the epic story The Warmth
Of Other Suns and even previous generations that. It is also one of the reasons why many of
us consider the American Dream to be positive.
One of the things that explain the attraction of the American dream is the fact that millions of international students are admitted to the United States every year, and these students eventually stay to make a great contribution to the productivity of social science and technology in the United States. Of course, these forces of promoting scientific progress are not only promoted by foreign students entering the United States, but also by all the people in the whole society of the United States, who work together to create scientific miracles. The American dream is still living in this country, most people desire good living conditions through good education, freedom, and the creation of science to achieve their goal. No matter the immigrants or native Americans, they do want to live in well.
The new immigrants have a dream and want to chase freedom, better living conditions, and fair employment. The way to express it is that as long as you work hard, everyone has a chance to shine for their life and family. Some people may argue that the American Dream is a myth because the president of the United States is denying asylum to immigrants, as well as making citizenship for immigrants harder. The American Dream is still possible to achieve even though there are many obstacles in the way. If it were a myth, then why is it that many immigrants are wanting to seek refuge here? It is because there is that chance of achieving the American dream and being successful. Achieving success is not easy to obtain and it is certainly not handed to us. In fact, the miracles of the American dream are created by people from all over the world. These miracles cover all fields, including economics, culture, science, art, social philosophy, and space exploration. "American Dream" is a word that Americans have long talked about. For hundreds of years, immigrants from all over the world have the American Dream to enter this continent of hope and create their own glory. Whenever there is an economic crisis, Americans are encouraged again by the "American Dream" and strive for the future of themselves and the country. America can be called Heaven, but it is a paradise of labor and intellect, a land of opportunity, not an opportunity of gangs, tricks. For many people, the values of Freedom, Equality, Independence, and Democracy appealed to them. They hope their children will be brought up and matured in that environment.
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