From The Ganger's How The Irish Became White

Do you ever contemplate what you represent in this world? Do you ever cogitate how people, holistically, perceive your personality, your background, your style, your dialect, and your feelings ? Our uniqueness is perceived by others due to our prestige, value, globalization and political economy in the formation of identity, culture, and urbanization. Value is shown up in culture, for example what we value shows other individuals what we believe in and who we accept. Our values are a big essential in determining our identity. Individuals give much significance to the renown connection with status. The division between wealth and poverty impacts the way we group ourselves into what we are which ultimately comes back to what we value and how

The overflow from cities to other cities causes immigration which changes who we are due to fitting in or due to our surroundings. In the works of From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City by Lessinger, How the Irish Became White by Ignatiev, and Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life by Gmelch identity is express throughout the book. Individuals in each society have their own views on social status and importance. Ever walked through the cities of New York and looked down to homeless people begging on the streets? We usually associate them with drug addictions or criminal acts, but what one might not take into consideration is that these people have different stories on how they became homeless. In the book Irish Travellers:The Unsettled Life they told us how these Irish people who chose to stay nomadic are looked down upon in their own homeland. Through the early years we had a nomadic way of lifestyle. The reason behind the nomadic lifestyle was done in order to survive. The Travellers went from town to town looking for temporary work. “There was a bit of a boom in jobs for Travellers in Tuam for a while [ during the Celtic Tiger years]. They started to get jobs, like working in construction. But now

Indians were attempting to make an ethnic character and system in order to keep up their standard social and religious identities in their new surroundings. It as well showed us how all together while in their new society in the United States of America how it impacted the relationship between the younger generation and their more standard more settled relatives. Some countries such as India lose some of their most valuable people when people travel to other countries such as the United States. A country can have lawyers, doctors, engineers but once those people seek for better opportunity that country loses their most valuable people. This is something we (other ethnic groups) don’t realize, we just see their immigration status. These people come from a place they were familiar with and had a social status to arrive and be labeled as an immigrant. This causes immigrants to develop a new identity since they want to fit in and not only be called an immigrant. While they are taking in new cultures and values they still keep their ties with their old identity, that’s who they are. Most first generation Indians distinguish strongly with their religion, dialect, social class and the topographical district they originated from in