Assimilation, Who Does It Apply To... The Weak?... The Strong?

Assimilation, the very thing that almost everyone from any ethnicity, race, or minority can relate to. When one assimilates to something or some group what is he/she doing, to themselves and their original culture? The answer is that they are changing it, some more drastic than others. More like "Out with the old and in with the new" kind of deal. Basically these "assimilators" are changing their so-called "plate of life" with another to make their lives a lot more better in the long run. Now for what reason someone would want to do this to themselves is too much to write down. In A Raisin in the Sun Beanetha shows a great amount of assimilation. Beanetha wants to assimilate into the white society from her black roots. This play shows her assimilation as a strength because out of all the people who are living in the apartment she is the most ambitious in wanting to become a doctor and she is the only one that is showing any kind of assimilation towards any different culture. Everyone has to meet at least someone that is like Beanetha one day or another. I know that I have met one because I am one myself. People assimilate by stopping themselves from taking part in their culture and essentially joining another one which is what assimilation is in a nutshell. Like I said before, there are many reasons why someone would want to assimilate themselves into another culture, in fact there are too many to list. A select few are that someone just doesn't like their family all too much and want to essentially "join another type of family". Someone could be ashamed at what has happened to their culture in the past years and doesn't want to be labeled as someone who is apart of that culture. Or someone wants to escape persecution from being apart of that culture from other cultures. I am apart of the "assimilators" because of reasons all to obvious. Another great example on how other people view assimilation is present in Eric Liu's essay "Notes of a Native Speaker". In this essay Liu describes his life story and how assimilation shaped his life now. Liu describes assimilation as another gateway of life that people can take in order to get different opportunities in their life. He also mentions that when one assimilates they are changing who and what they are (essentially leaving their old life but not really). Past cultural traits are not completely lost but they are lost to the point that when being around strangers they are no longer present. Assimilation changes what one is and is aimed towards the weak and strong individuals of the world.

My Family Over Myself? Hmm... What To Say...

What is more important to me, family or individual desires? For me it would have to be my family, now granted you could look the other way and say that my desires and goals that I set myself are number one and should be attended to first, but it's how one gets to those desires. For me to achieve these desires I have to use human resources to help me along the way, weather it be for moral support or general advice. My family is one of those resources. Whatever my goal happens to be I know that I can count on them to help me get that "edge" over the competition. Without my family I am pretty sure that I would not be in this position that I am in right this very moment. I create my own building blocks for my own life but my family is the glue that sticks them all together. One block might be to become great at something and I might not be able to "put the pieces" together. Then here comes the family to the rescue! They help glue that metaphorical gap shut and allow me to preform that art to the best of my abilities. No matter what the case maybe I seem to always fall back on my family to raise my hope of completing this cases. A great example happens mostly everyday this school year, I usually stay up late doing homework and my brother will as stay up with me to see if I have any questions that he can answer to the best of his abilities. My family has always been there for me whenever I needed something and that is something that I shall never forget. Throughout the years of my life my family has shown me this and I now understand that while individual desires may seem all too important, they are meaningless and non-existent without a  strong family for assistance.

The American Dream and My Thoughts

The American Dream according to me is to be successful and have a great life. Being successful in America is comprised of many things, having a great job that you can will enjoy everyday, earning a good amount of money that is sustainable, and having a great place to live which includes buying land and building a home. Now this particular dream is available to anyone in the country, but most people don't achieve this. They instead go the more lenient route which is like living in the suburbs of America.
That's my dream, not to be the stereotypical person "That is living the so- called American Dream", buy some land somewhere, become a billionaire by some various reasons, I want to be just a typical person "livin' the suburban life". I want to have a regular home in the suburban area and have a decent paying job that I like. It is a very simple dream that almost anyone can complete, but that is enough to make my life complete. That is all that matters.

About Me In A Four Finger Length Style

Greetings and Salutations! My name is Miguel Cardenas and welcome to my blog! This is my very first blog- like thing and I hope that it comes out great. Anyway about myself, I am currently a Junior at Southwest High School. I really love computers and all that jazz. I play an instrument which is the Trumpet and I like to think that I'm an OK type of good at it. The English course that I'm taking this year is called English Three Dual Credit otherwise known as Freshman Composition. What I'm expecting from this year based on the first couple of weeks is that I'm going to be doing a lot of work and I better start enjoying it now. I have a few goals that I had set for myself that are marked for completion by the end of this year which are to be Comp-Tia A+ Certified (and hopefully Network +) and to learn how to type properly without looking at the keyboard. Hopefully I'm in for another great year that is ten times better than the last year. That was about me is a four finger length style! Now without further ado, let's get blogging I hope you enjoy whatever it is that I will post on here in the later days!