For your new blog response, please answer the following:
1) What part of the article made the strongest impression on you and why?
2) What is one question you have in response to the article? (Melody, you can choose some of these questions for Monday's in-class discussion.)
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Due: Before Monday, 3/16, 12PM
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"He said he is not accepted "as a friend by the Latino Americanos," never invited to join in a game of basketball or to sit with them at lunch time "because they think we are inferior to them because we were not born here." His eyes water. The room is silent for a few seconds." ... This part of the story made the strongest impression on me because you get to see the feelings from the other side. It's sad to hear that the boy begins to cry after he says this. You can feel his sadness and how bad he wants to be accepted. A lot of the time you look at the kids who can't and don't speak English, and who also dress differently and you think that's just how they want to be. I have never heard this point of view. Were immigrants want to fit in and be more " Americanized ", it's sad that the people who shut them down the most are their own kind.
ReplyDeleteOne part that i feel made the strongest impression on me was how so many people can be from the same ethnical background and still treat 'immagrants' different because they werent born there. I think that its sad when someone of the same racial background doesnt want to be friends with someone who wasnt born in the same country they were. I feel that they shouldnt be like that. I mean isnt some of the latinos born here in america still have decendants that were born in other countries? i think its sad that peeople do this. I also agree when they said that it has to do with not just race but also where you are in soiciety. They range from the high class to the low class and everything in between. But i know that even though i am cacasian that it happens to me when i was in class too. That even though my school was 70% cacasian we still had those groups that dicriminated again someone who didnt have alot of money to have certian types of clothes or whatever. One question that i would ask is why does it make such a big difference if you were born in america or another country even though you have the same racial background?
ReplyDeletei feel the strongest poiunt of this story how poeple are the same race and yet still judge other the same race as them, just because of how the dress and where they are from really why doesnt that matter is the have the same back ground but the only diffrence is that they were born here or or another country like they still are the same maybe someday they will see that why dont people accept you for the way you are why cant they just like you for what kind of person you are and not like you just because you were born somewhere else and not where they were and yet they have the same back ground as them.
ReplyDeleteThe part that made the strongest impression on me was at the very end of paper when he talks about leaving there war-torn country to make better lives for themselves and when they get here there is another struggle with the own race. That part touch me the most. My parents came from the same situation. I seen Asians at school that came over here from a different country. I see the struggle they have to go through being the out-crowd and being made fun of. I try to stick up for them because i know the things they are going through are probably the same thing my parents had to go through when the first came over here to the United States.
ReplyDeleteQuestion:How would you feel if you were the immigrant student instead of the American student?
"Our families have struggled to come here for a better future and then we still have to struggle with people who are from our own race," by far made the biggest impression. While reading this story, I felt humored by the struggles of the author. The previous post made statement like: Many people find it amazingly hard to believe that a person with the same ethnical background could treat immigrants different; nonetheless, to me even we are two cultures that are unalike. Yes, we have the same ethnical background. We have similar traits, and capable of speaking the same language. But we are different. Different in the aspect of thinking and personality.
ReplyDeleteONe question I have in response to this article is that: How can people with the same ethnical background still considered to be the same when we are two cultures that are unalike?
For me i didn't relize that American born Mexicans and Mexicans that came here from Mexico didn't get along. Maybe thats ignorant of me but I never knew that so when the author says one of the boys named Ernesto says " We come from war-torn countries, our familes have struggled to come here for a better future and then we stll have to struggle with people who are from our own race." I was really moved. It just made me think of how similar people really are.
ReplyDeleteI liked that the teachers had the students talk to eachother about their lives and i feel that it will make a big difference in the way the students see eachother.
"We come from war-torn countries," he said. "Our families struggled to come to here for a better future and when we still have to struggle with people who are from our own race." This made the strongest impression on me because I remember my older sister being a little mean sometimes to some mexican immigrants when we were in middle school, but that was because she really didnt understand what it meant to be a immigrant back then. Now, that would be the lst thing on earth she would ever do. Both her and I are peopl who will not make fun of anyone woth the same background as us.
ReplyDeleteOne question I would ask to those mexicans born in america is what makes then so superior to the immigrant? Do their parents not teach them about their own culture and if we share the same culture why are they making-fun of the mexican immigrants.