A great river always begins somewhere. Coming to America has changed my life experience. At first, I didn’t know what was going on in the world. I felt completely naïve. I noticed that I had to pay a special attention to this new world no matter how strange it was to me. As I settled in the U.S, I noticed that if I keep focusing on education I might be able to make a difference in the world. I couldn’t believe I would live in a new world which allows people to have equal rights so that they could improve themselves. I was born in Tanzania and grew up in the camp of refuges in Tanzania. When I was in refugee’s camp, I went to school so that I could learn how to write and speak my native language. I always wondered why the …show more content…
For example, when Europeans were colonizing Africa, the Belgians took over the land where Rwanda is now. Before the Belgians left Rwanda, they told Rwandans that there were three different types of people which are Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi. “They looked at the Rwandans people and thought the Tutsi had more European characteristics, such as lighter skin and a taller build”(United Human Right”). Hutu and Tutsi are tribes that share a common past, but they have different ranks. Twa people are native Rwandans who never want to be involved in politics, government, and other important things. Twa don’t usually associate with Hutu and Tutsi people. When Belgians were in Rwanda, they separated the tribes by saying that Tutsi were superior to Hutu and Twa. This meant that Tutsi had a higher rank than Hutu. As the Belgians left Rwanda, the tutsi people were instructed to control Hutu people. Tutsi used that belief from the Belgians to exploit and discriminate against Hutu and Twa. Tutsi leaders didn’t allow any Hutu to be involved in government, politics, and other opportunities. This proved that Tutsi people were controlling everything in country. Hutu didn’t have any word to say because they were always put last. What saddened Hutu was Tutsi’s children could attend school while Hutu’s children had to stay home. Sometimes, Tutsi people would use them as servants for them. It was sad to see how Hutu were forced to stay away from Tutsi’s property. As Tutsi continued to discriminate against Hutu people, Hutu people decided to stand up and speak out so that they could have the same rights as Tutsi people (“United Human Rights Council”). I was so surprised to learn this. This article increased my curiosity about Rwanda’s issues. I found that Belgians are the one who started to bring a conflict into Rwandans by dividing them in three different tribes. I figured out that Segregation and
...hat sometimes some ethnic groups didn’t share the same ideas with other people and that lead to fights and violence with the purpose of become the leader.
...ad given millions of not so well-to-do Americans their first opportunity of realizing a dream, secure their present, and lay the groundwork of building a strong future.
Life sets out many pathways to decide your future. It can give you experiences and certain experiences in your life can impact you a lot. Today I’m going to talk about how moving to America has impacted me is that the fact that the American culture has changed me completely. One obvious reason American culture has changed me is the fact that I am speaking English right now. Learning English took me awhile even tho I’m still not fluent in it.
The important event that transformed my life is coming to the United States of America to get education and to study. When I first arrived in this country, I comprehended that an incredible change would happen in my life, both mentally and physically. After living more than one year in the United States, I definitely believe that moving to the United States is an advantageous change for me. This change offers me an opportunity to live a healthy lifestyle as well as a new way of thinking that is significant to me and the most importantly it provides me with a better education in a simple way.
Nobody really likes moving. At least I know, I don 't. Moving to another place you have no idea about is tough. When I was 14, my father petitioned my family to move to the United States. Upon hearing that news from my mother, I was devastated. Devastated that I have to leave the place that I grew up, leaving all my friends and family. I have to travel 10,000 miles across the glove to live in a place I have never been to. I have very little idea about United States before moving, I have only seen this place through screen, watched movies such as "High School Musical." From what I have heard and seen life seemed so much easier and happier in the US, but once I stepped out of the plane, I knew it would not be even close to what I have pictured in my mind.
Stepping out of my first plane ride, I experience an epiphany of new culture, which seems to me as a whole new world. Buzzing around my ears are conversations in an unfamiliar language that intrigues me. It then struck me that after twenty hours of a seemingly perpetual plane ride that I finally arrived in The United States of America, a country full of new opportunities. It was this moment that I realized how diverse and big this world is. This is the story of my new life in America.
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my parents and I immigrated from the Philippines to America in search of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It wasn't until I started maturing did I notice the obstacles I overcame, the accomplishments I achieved, and the objectives I set for myself that significantly contributed towards the achievement of my dream.
This sense of difference provides a motive or rationale for using our power advantage to threaten the ethnoracial Other in ways that we would regard as cruel or unjust if applied to members of our own group. The possible consequences of this nexus of attitude. and action range from unofficial but pervasive social discrimination at one end. of the spectrum to genocide at the other. . .
Since I still wanted to make friends, I desperately continued to try to break down the barrier between my peers and I and I slowly began to succeed. As I began making more and more friends, my experience in the U.S. started to become a happier one. Although there were still many things about American culture that I did not understand, I chose to face my fears head on which lead to a more content life. I realized that no matter where you are from, what obstacles you had to face, or what social class you belong to, coming to America gives you an opportunity to build a new and better life for you and your family. The journey to learn this lesson was not an easy one, but I’m glad I learned it.
Everyone in America is given an opportunity to pursue any dream that his or her heart so desires. He or she will give it little importance, sometimes knowing or not knowing that it’s a once in a lifetime chance. In America, some people are given equal opportunity and some aren’t. Usually given at a favorable occasion, opportunity is something that can change an Americans life for a short or long term. Me being an American, if I was given an opportunity to make my life better, I would take it, but it is up to you as an person in America to make the best use of it.
Moving to a different country at a young age can be a challenge, especially when most of my friends and family are not coming with me. I moved to the United States when I was eight years old. When I landed in Michigan in 2006, everything was new to me, the culture, the language, and the people. Coming to America was cultural shock to my system.
The Rwandan genocide occurred due to the extreme divide between two main groups that were prevalent in Rwanda, the Hutu and the Tutsi. When Rwanda was first settled, the term Tutsi was used to describe those people who owned the most livestock. After the Germans lost control over their colonies after World War I, the Belgians took over and the terms Hutu and Tutsi took on a racial role (Desforges). It soon became mandatory to have an identification card that specified whether or not an individual was a Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa (a minority group in Rwanda). The Tutsi soon gained power through the grant of leadership positions by the Belgians. Later on when Rwanda was tying to gain indepe...
At first, my very first experience in the United States is so bored, depressed, and hopeless. It was a new journey for me, I learn a language that I had never learned before, I get bullied just because I am the only one Asian who do not speak English. However, my life has become better when I realized that the “American Dream” is possible. Well, for me, the term “American Dream” is fitting for the one who attends at school, who has confidence and hard work. It might be a dream for my generation but not my parents. I saw my parents struggle to keep my brother and I fed. They worked more than two jobs, just to help us finish our education, paying our rent, and everything. I saw them suffer in tears, to sacrificed their future to let my brother and me to get a better education and opportunities to
...ause the colonial masters believed that they resembled them. It was unethical for the Belgians to interfere with the peaceful coexistence that the two communities had enjoyed in the past. As a result, the Hutus acquired negative misconceptions about the Tutsis’ origin, what they stood for, and what they had done for them in the past. The Hutus expertly planned and organized the Rwandan genocide as a result of such historical distortions created by their country’s colonial masters.
Many years ago, people have immigrated to a new world where they can hope for a more beautiful existence, for the wealth, for the freedoms, for the better opportunities and most importantly, for the American Dreams.