Impact of Asians in America

Asians as a Model Minority in the United States

Introduction

The classic definition of immigrants refers to a group of people that leaves the land of their birth to establish a new life in a new land The term uprooted ' is often associated with immigrants to refer to the symbolic pulling of roots from the native land to hopefully take root in a new place . This theory maintains that as immigrants assimilate into American society , they shed their involvement and identifications with the home society (Elovitz Kahn 19 ) The host country

generates the need for assimilation as immigrants adapt to the host country 's ways of living (Elovitz Kahn 32 ) However , that is an oversimplified definition . The connotation of uprooting conjures up images of people abandoning their native lands and forsaking their cultural origins . But such is not the case with most immigrants particularly the Asian Americans

Problem Statement

In a new concept forwarded by Schiller et al , they coined the term transmigrants to better capture the dynamics that take place among migrants as they move from their homeland to a new place . This pride in their culture and heritage shows in all aspects of their lives and such values have allowed them to excel in almost all of their endeavors However , while this concept as a model minority may have generally served Asian migrants well , in some cases , these high expectations have exerted undue pressure on some Asian individuals who find the expectations stifling to their own individuality . The...