The Hard Working Immigrant Who Make Good Summary

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Akhil Sharma, the author of “the hard working immigrant who make good” was an Indian college graduate from Harvard University. He was trying to become a banker even he was graduate from Law school and studied nothing about finance. Because of the better money, he decided to be a banker. He was a very smart man and he became talkative during the interview. In order to look different from other competitors, he came up with some fake working experiences about part-time working in a gas station and 7-11 at night to show the interviewers he was the hard working immigrant that everyone was looking for. He knew people loved hardworking-immigrant-make-good stereotype, which he hated before. He told his stories with many believable details even made …show more content…

Some people believed that all Chinese people were good at math and science. When I was working with a group about math problems, they basically just throw the questions to me and wait for answers. Different individuals are different, some immigrants work hard and some immigrants do not, some Asian drives terrible and some Asian drive terrific. I do not think it will be a good idea to put a tag on someone base on skin color or nationality. On the other hand, I am totally disagree with what Akhil did. Honestly the reputation of immigrants are hard working were earned by those real hard working immigrants. They worked more than 60 hours a week to support their families. Akhil was not one of them but he used his fake stories to win the trust of HR interviewers. Once they found out he was lying, they would not believe the immigrant hard working things and maybe they would come up with a new stereotype, immigrant-like-to-lie. He was not tried to make his contribution to this society by using his knowledge he learnt in college, but only thought about money. This is not the correct

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