Since the 19th century, America became a place where millions of people aspire to immigrate intensively. In order to pursuit a better life, freedom, and equality, people have to leave their hometowns and family, deal with uncertainty. Why were so many people willing to leave their family and go to the United States for pursuing their American Dreams? The most important reason that people chose to immigrate to America was they believed that they had opportunities to earn a better life. No matter how hard they tried, their lives are barely improved. Therefore, people were dissatisfied and despaired with their own countries since their efforts did not pay off. However, reality was cruelly destroying the path to the dream, additionally; people …show more content…
However, not all people in this city want to give up their cultures and adopt others’ cultures. Cultural conflict also shows in the film “Do the Right Thing” through the dialogues. A 25 years old black man, Mookie, and his Puerto Rican girlfriend Tina have a baby boy. Usually, a Puerto Rican woman, Tina’s mother takes care of the baby boy. One day, when Mookie visits his girlfriend’s house, he finds out that Tina’s mother communicates with his baby boy in Spanish instead of English. Mookie shouts at Tina’s mother: “English! I want my son to learn English, Not Spanish!” Native language is the soul and symbol of a nation. It helps people identify themselves and value their heritage. First language brings people that you might never meet before together since we share same traditions and culture. Hence, many people in New York City do not want to abandon their native tongue, including Tina’s mother. American Community Survey Reports are supported this statement. According to “English-Speaking Ability of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States” report, more than 80% of people who born in other countries speak a language other than English at home. Another example of cultural conflict in the film “Do the Right Thing” is the argument between Raheem and a crowd of Latino teenagers. Radio Raheem plays “Fight for Power” through his boom box everywhere he goes. The volume of boom box is loud. People around him are forced to listen to this song. Nevertheless, not all the people appraise this song. When Radio Raheem walks around the neighborhood, he meets a group of Spanish teenagers who enjoy their beers and music. Obviously, Raheem’s music disturbs them. They immediately complain about it: “yo man, it is too loud! I want to listen to my salsa!” As Ana Flac expresses her feeling about culture conflict in her report of the film, “Multiculturalism in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Paul Haggis's L.A. Crash – Between
During the late 1800's and early 1900's hundreds of thousands of European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had aspirations of success, prosperity and their own conception of the American Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed that their lives would completely change for the better and the new world would bring nothing but happiness. Advertisements that appeared in Europe offered a bright future and economic stability to these naive and hopeful people. Jobs with excellent wages and working conditions, prime safety, and other benefits seemed like a chance in a lifetime to these struggling foreigners. Little did these people know that what they would confront would be the complete antithesis of what they dreamed of.
In America is a movie about an Irish family that immigrates to New York in order to find better work and improve their lives, but end up finding that it is very difficult to live in the U.S. This is due to the problems they face involving health, money, and the overall environment of the place they live. There are many aspects of cultural geography that are brought up throughout the movie. Some examples include the neighborhood they live in, class of people, and the health factors that impact the people that live there.
People were moving states even countries to get jobs and achieve the American Dream. When people arrived, they saw how wages never went up and how conditions were dangerous and dirty. There was no ladder to climb up and reach the ultimate goal, the American Dream. Consensus
People living in this neighborhood had affectionate love for Sal, but later on they became voiceless the moment their power to run their own businesses was taken away. It is because of communication breakdown that makes tension build up in the movie and ultimately ending up with Sal’s store burnt down and Radio Raheem killed by racist police officers. Spike Lee did an excellent job in the production of this movie. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) has won numerous awards in the cinematographic category. It has won awards in best music, best pictures, and best original screenplay. Indeed, this is a masterpiece that deserves to scoop such awards. This is a movie which lovers of the hip-hop culture would enjoy most. Any fan of the hip-hop culture should be familiar with Spike’s groundbreaking movie released in
Although today’s America in many ways has changed into a new society. Immigrants desire to move to America because they have freedom of religion, a chance to rise from poverty, and a new beginning. According to Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur in from Letters from an American Farmer, ‘’ A country that had no bread for him, whose fields produced him no harvest, who met with nothing but the frowns of the rich, the severity of the laws, with jails and punishments; who owned not a single foot of the extensive surface of this planet? No! Urged by a variety of motives, here they came (148). Immigrants have a need to move to America to have a better future. As immigrants look on America they see that it’s a way out of getting a new life.
Why do many people come to America in hopes of a better life? America has always been considered a land of freedom and opportunity, and though this is true, America is initially a land created by all these different culture and beliefs coming together. Which is why I believe that Immigrants themselves have shaped America. When they come to America they bring Culture and affect the economy positively, thus shaping America into what it is.
As I reread this article over again I realized that Jose is being stereotyped throughout the entire article in many different ways, from moving to America when he was 12, with no family or friends to rely on for support, to going to school and having to learn English by himself, to going to college to getting a professional job, all while doing this he was and is an undocumented immigrant. By reading this article they are stereotyping Jose because, he was from the Philippine who came to the America when he was 12 years old. He mother wanted to give him a better life so she decided she needed to send her only son thousands of miles away to live with her parents in America. He had no other family members in America and no friends for support. When I watched this movie in class as first I thought it was just about a story of a boy who turned his life into having an amazing career, not realizing he is an undocumented
The movie I decided to analyze for this course was American History X (1998), which stars Edward Norton. Though this movie isn’t widely known, it is one of the more interesting movies I have seen. It’s probably one of the best films that depict the Neo Nazi plague on American culture. The film takes place from the mid to late 1990’s during the Internet boom, and touches on subjects from affirmative action to Rodney King. One of the highlights of this movie that really relates to one of the key aspects of this course is the deterrence of capital punishment. Edward Norton’s portrayal as the grief stricken older brother who turns to racist ideologies and violence to cope with his fathers death, completely disregards the consequences of his actions as he brutally murders someone in front of his family for trying to steal his car. The unstable mentality that he developed after his father’s death really goes hand-to-hand specifically with Isaac Ehrlich’s study of capital punishment and deterrence. Although this movie is entirely fictional, a lot of the central themes (racism, crime punishment, gang pervasiveness, and one’s own vulnerability) are accurate representations of the very problems that essentially afflict us as a society.
Some of the main and obvious reasons for people wanting to immigrate to America is poverty, having trouble getting money, they need a better job, or freedom. Immigration has been going on for a really long time like as early as the 1600s and has been going on since them and it gets even more and more common every year for someone to immigrate to U.S. from a foreign country. During the 1880s to 1920 there was probably the most people immigrating which was the colonial era at the time. In my personal opinion immigrants come to America because they see a lot of opportunities to do something good or be great in some way because they don’t
The American dream is a goal many hope to live. This desire dream of many individuals includes a hardship, and dedication. The United States represents freedom to many immigrants who fought for a better way of life. America has been a nation of immigrants, starting with its original inhabitants, who left their homelands for a chance to start a new life. According to an article by Gilder Lehrman Institute, over the past 400 years immigrants have escaped to America for many reasons. In the article some reasons for their escapes from their homes was due to war; others for the freedom to practice the religion of their choice. Freedom is the key in America, and the pursuit of happiness, which many fought to be part of. Many immigrants take long journeys for the economic opportunities. Even after thousands of years of immigration history America is still the land of the free, and the country where many can accomplish their American Dream.
About more than a million immigrates live in United State, but why? The Push-Pull Factor is when people migrate since something pushes them away from their native country or pulls them toward a new place. Such as my parents, Herminia, my mother was “pull” towards America because she was convinced that California was the state to have varied employment opportunities. Meanwhile Efrain, my father was “push” to America, because his community had ecological problem. Even though my parents had immigrated to California, they differently learned about loss of innocence, injustice, and both learned about companionship as a salvation.
No better is this endangerment seen than in The Italian starring George Beban in which he and his family complete with newborn child are forced to live in The Lower East Side which was one of the more well known gatherings of immigrants forced to live in tenements and slums there. These people lived in the exact conditions that Weiss was referring to in his statement about one’s health and soul. Beppo and Annette are living their lives in Italy which, while not luxurious, are still good. Annette works in a field gathering crops and Beppo works piloting a gondola down the river. They are poor yet they are satisfied with their lives and the idea of spending them together. The two find their way to America yet end up in New York’s Lower East
Everyone has hopes and dreams for a better future. We all want to live a happy life, where we are surrounded by our loved ones and can work to make our dreams a reality. This is why the idea of the American Dream appeals to so many people — it sparks a sense of hope and a new beginning for those who have nothing left to lose anymore in their own country. People from all over the world leave their native country to immigrate to the United States. Anything from personal to economic to political reasons drive people to leave their native country and immigrate to the United States. Immigration is and will continue to be a big part of the United States history, since it is what has made the US diverse; however, the sudden increase in unaccompanied
“...To immigrate is to make an entrepreneurial act. It’s to uproot yourself and perhaps your family and take a risk.” Thousands of people immigrate to America yearly, each with their own stories to tell. Many come for different reasons and most hope for a better life when they get there. Majority has struggled getting their way through life in a new country. My mom was one of those thousands of immigrants who struggled and fought hard to not give up. She came for a better life and risked everything for a stronger future for her family.
The Immigrant, directed by James Gray, opened my eyes to how the life of an immigrant was when attempting to enter the United Sates. I feel as though it also provided a unique perspective on the measures people will go to in order to earn money and to help their loved ones. Witnessing Ewa’s – the protagonist of the film – struggles throughout the film just to get her sister out of quarantine and off of Ellis Island, opened my eyes to how things might have been when Ellis Island was an active immigration station. I found that various moments in The Immigrant were very hard to watch because of the content within the scene.