Why My Mother Can T Speak Language By Garry Engkent

Doors of Children Immigrants, a person or a family who moves from one country to another to get a permanent resident. Moving from one country to another is difficult. The two short stories “Why My Mother Can’t speak English” By Garry Engkent and “Ancestors- The Genetic Source” By David Suzuki has a focus point about immigrants and the variety of problems they face in Canada. Why My mother can’t speak English is a family that has migrated from China to Canada. Mr. Engkent’s mother came to Canada with her husband and son when she was forty. she was put at the restaurants kitchen right away. She worked straight seven days a week

As in David Suzuki, he was sansei (third generation). Both the short stories have a similar piece of writing. Mr. Engkent’s mother faces some difficulties when she moves to Canada and David Suzuki faces difficulties when he goes to Japan. The thing both stories have mentioned is about vast of cultures and customs, due to that they went through environment change or incense of different language, which somewhere lead to dominant influence or a persons Identities. To begin with, immigrants who have settled in a country with new cultures and customs are often scared to lose their cultural values, not only for themselves but also for their family. They tend to hold on their artistic souls and customs when adapting to a new country. Mrs. Engkent hates everything about Canada, she feared losing her Chinese culture if she conformed to the “fan gwei” way (different countries culture). “If you are here long enough, they will turn your head until you don’t know who you are— Chinese” (Engkent, pg.144) Mrs. Engkent did everything in the Chinese way, she

She did not want it to accept Canadian culture. As in with David Suzuki his family and people in his country treated him like a foreigner. “I am pure-blooded member of the Japanese race” (Suzuki, pg.367). People do not accept him as Japanese due to his Canadian Culture also because he does not speak Japanese. “Because of my name, they had expected a “real” Japanese. Instead, I was a gaijin (foreigner) and the owner told us he would not take us” (Suzuki, pg.369). David was refused to stay at the Japanese's inn because he was a foreigner to them. David did not know the customs of Japan, that they always take their shoes off when entering because of the straw mats. (he had bad experienced with other people so they think everyone is same). But somewhere David Suzuki had two personality and cultural restriction, he preferred to be a Canadian but had to be Japanese to keep his parents happy. Furthermore, another main point is environmental change. Most often when you step into a different country, people have a hard time communicating with others and