loss of religion when immigrating to New York City

Running head : LOSING AND REGAINING CULTURE AND RELIGION

Losing and Regaining Jewish Russian and Mexican Religion and Culture

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LOSING AND REGAINING JEWISH RUSSIAN AND MEXICAN RELIGION AND CULTURE

New York City is one of the many destinations in the world where people come to immigrate and start with life all over again . It is perhaps the promise of the better life which lures people to cross geographical boundaries if only to be able to settle in New York . With lives lived under difficult and oftentimes harsh

circumstances and with the opportunity to come to New York and relocate there for good , it appears that it does not take a genius to compel one to immigrate . The idea of migrating to New York stems from the thought that New York City boasts of a life surrounded financial opportunities while being completely surrounded by a bustling population which gives meaning and life to the City . Jewish Russians and Mexicans have long composed a considerable size of immigrants to New York in the past decades . It is no longer a mere assumption that these two distinct groups of individuals now comprise a chunk of the labor force of New York City . Part of the reason to this is that the settlers would have to earn themselves a living decent enough to at least feed them for a day

It is worth considering that when Jewish Russians and Mexicans have settled in New York City , it appears that they have lost their previous religion and culture . More importantly , these groups of people have also appeared to have adopted the religion and culture of New York City . It can be said that there are many reasons behind this phenomenon , and that the reasons do not come simple enough . The reasons dwell somewhere between the complex and the irreducible because the individual reasons overlap and compound

This focuses on the loss of the Jewish Russian and Mexican religion and culture and the eventual , albeit gradual , regaining of what was lost , as well as the different factors which largely contribute to the these processes

On Losing Religion and Culture

As Kevin Keogan (2002 ) pointed out in his article , there are a considerable number of Russians and Mexicans living in the New York City locality and that these two groups belong to the top ten ethnic groups living in the City (p . 226 . On the other hand , Brian Godfrey (1995 noted that the global and financial and managerial roles ' of New York City as well as its deindustrialization and corporate relocation have created social areas that have become polarized (p . 436 . The economic flourishing of New York City decades ago , especially during the post World War era , has brought abut significant changes and improvements in the City . That being said , the status of New York City after the Second World War has gained a larger position largely because of its robust market and ever-increasing economics (MacPherson , 1997 ,

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