Assimilation of Asian-Americans

Assimilation of Asian-Americans

America is one of the most diverse countries in the world because of it’s everyone is welcome policy, well almost everyone. The many different cultures of people that live in America go through many levels in order to fit in with the majority. I think this will be an issue of the people in America forever. One group that deals with this issue is Asian-Americans. The process that most cultures use to fit in is assimilation.

In many cases, cultures that go through assimilation sometimes tend to lose their own cultural identity. Assimilation is not a law that must be practice among the different racial groups. The Asian communities have always had strong cultural beliefs and this stood true when they came to America as immigrants in the 1800’s (Chu, Mustafa, Kloberdanz, Bower, 2006). As the years begin to go by and the new generation of Asians came of age many of the old cultures begin to fade take a back seat to the American culture. The biggest reason for assimilation was how hard the immigrants had to struggle economically.

Asian American has many challenges to over come one being stereotyping, being classed before they were even given a chance. Most of the stereotypes came from their culture and their beliefs that Asians lived by. Many of the older Asian American has tried to hold on to their culture in the home but used assimilation outside to blend in. The American government has not tried to band any culture in America but the norm is for most groups to want to blend in with the majority, this will benefit them economically, educationally, and socially.

In many cases even American born Asians have, it hard trying to fit in because of their looks they are automatically classed (Chu, Mustafa, Kloberdanz, Bower, 2006). The childhood of many Asian kids made assimilation more popular among immigrants because of the social exclusion they faced on a daily bases. This life style made it very difficult on the Asian culture trying to...