Should Immigrant Parents Americanize Their Children

Should immigrant parents Americanize their children? Should they prioritize adapting to the environment over their own cultural heritage? I don't think they should, and I don't think they have to. I can tell from my own experience that parents actually have much less influence on deciding how a child grows up than it would seem. But that is not to say that they have no role at all. As the perceived root of their children's culture they do play an important part. Personally, if I ever had questions about our customs, religion, or where I came from the people to ask were my mother or my grandmother. They always had an answer, even if they had to make it up. I feel that parents would best serve the purpose of preserving their heritage through

His family stifles their heritage to make things more convenient, more acceptable. They “sang jingles from World War II/ in a language they did not speak” and offered the “fat boy” the staid soft drink, something he was already accustomed to. The coconuts, meanwhile, were neglected in their perches. They “sagged heavy with milk, swollen and unsuckled.” The coconuts, which Espada saw as part of his heritage were being wasted. In this poem, the author is making an appeal to the audience to not let their culture go to waste. He wants them to treasure it and in doing so they will be rewarded. Even if the adults aren't aware of it, by replacing their customs with something more comfortable they are depriving their children of something equally as important as a cushy job. Letting children know where they come from won't make them feel weird or out of place. They will just know a little more about who they are identifying

It's not that I am ashamed or anything. I'm just mostly clueless. It both reminds me that I am a foreigner and at the same time that I have not done enough to protect my own heritage, that I haven't bothered enough to learn more about it. That is an odd and embarrassing place to be. I can see why a parent would want to spare a child from this kind situation, but I don't think “Americanizing” them is the way to go about it. Actually, I think a parent should freely dump as much culture as they want on a child, so long as he or she is willing to learn. In all likelihood, he children won't be getting any first-hand experience anyway. They only know what they have been told. I can truly say that the awkward situations in which I had to try to educate someone else about where I came from would have been much more tolerable if I actually had answers for