My Life As An Undocumented Immigrant Analysis

Coexistence with the Environment of the Community

The coexistence with the environment of the community is something very important for us, because this will person to coexistence with different communities and maybe the person will move from one country to another country and we know each country has different culture. In “Then and Now: Creating a self Through the past” Engel discuses “we work hard to create and maintain a sense of inner cohesion and consistency in our self-concept. This is, to a large degree, what cognitive dissonance theory is all about” (199). That means how a person can present an idea that think is truth. What Engel says applies to Vargas, in “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” Vargas explains everything happened

This means you must adapt to the society and can be demonstrated in your character again. “The sociologies Erving Goffman has described the ways in which we create different faces, or selves, in response, to different social situations” (198). This means you have to express yourself in any different social situations. For example, Vargas expresses himself in America when he wrote the first article for student paper. Thus from that moment he is a check that has emerged himself in American society. This is the most important thing because when he expresses himself, the people will accept it all welcomed. When your show strongly in the new community well, it will be respected and has therefor become a citizen like the citizens of that country. Thus the goal of the personal highlight a strange society is that accept you live in and not feel that you are a stranger or a

When changing a personal identity change many things, including society, culture and other things. In “Chicana Artists Exploring Nepantla,” Gloria Anzaldua discusses, the term “nepantla.” Nepantla is the feeling someone gets when they exist in between two worlds. Anzaldua said, “When moving from one place to another, […] job or culture to another, when traveling from the present identity into a new identity” that can change our personal (1). That quote shows how our personal can change when we are moving from pleas to another or changing culture. Many of the people who transport from their countries to other because of livelihood or other reasons are exposed to nepantla and this is normally happens for everyone who goes from their countries for a long time. For example, Vargas exposed to nepantla when he came to America. Since he came to America, he gets used to the environment society and this is reason why he wants to be American citizen. Thus he wants to get the passport because he like to be one of the American society. In addition, the culture is different in America then in Philippines. This is make some challenge to Vargas because he has to know the new culture. Thus When we moved from pleas to another we exposed to nepantla which change the identity of the person. When you moved to a new society,