AMERICA

In the third rotationof my FYS class we addressed the idea of understanding what America is and what or who is to be defined as an American. By the end of the  this rotation i found that the idea of America and being being american hard to grasp. as a person born in america i define myself as an american because i was born here. however what about those that have migrated here over the course of the last 3 hundreed years and consider american as their home and consider themselves Americans even though they were not born here. Through our discussions and debates about the reading that were provided in the class the idea of America and Americans being defined as one specific thing or idea. while hearing the ideas of all of the people in my class i found tha the more we spoke on the subject the less tanagible the ideas of america really was to us. In the stories we had to to read while in the clas such as ” My Lucy Friend that smells like corn” and “Bar-B-Que” , it speakes about the young girls from other countries that have to adjust to the life of living in America. Whether that would be the idea of having barbie doll like everyone else or watching as you parents struggle to be like everyone else and providing for a family on a budget that is not enough. In  the story Mericans it speaks about how the idea of being associated with older traditions is seen as a burden beecause it is not wanted because thechildren in the story wan to be seen as Mexican American but not as just Mexicans

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