In Herouxvill, Quebec in Canada, the authorities have passed a law to ban immigrants from stoning women. Authorities had a bit of controversary over this new law, but the councilman has assured all the residents that when it comes to some cultural difference, the immigrants should abide to the laws of the region. And that gets me a bit confused.
I thought that people immigrate because they want to better their lives; why else would they want to travel to an unknown land, with a different culture language and climate faraway from family and friends, unless running away from something illegal.
If I want to live my life exactly like what it was back home here in this new adopted home, why did I burden the hardship? And if I am here, because I do not like my life style there, and was incapable to change it, why am I doing the same thing here? Do I make sense?
Immigration is not an easy as it is spelled and I know it because I am a pro and have done it twice around and I can tell you a lot about it. But through hardship of adapting and adjusting, I know that although changing habits and cultures are very challenging, I think that I have made a few things work better for me than before. I have tried to blend the best of every culture that I have been ever exposed to and make a new way of life for me and yet preserve my identity. Believe me that I still have my accent intact!
I have not become fully American, and I have not lost all my ethnic background. I cherish my family tradition and embrace it with whole heart and pass it on to 4teen, and at the same time, I love the opportunities and possibilities that this land has provided for me without binding me down for being a woman, minority or social class barriers.
I know that this last sentence will bring a lot of adversary opinion, but in relation to many other countries, we all have it better here. Many things were not to my liking in the country that I was born and grew up, and I try to get rid of them now. On the other hand, many things are cold and impersonal here and I try to bypass them. I have learned to speak the language here fluently. I have adapted to customs and the ways that things are done in this country regardless, but I enjoy the convenience that this country offers me.
The way I see it, if one wants the convenience and abundance of this country, something should be paid in exchange and abiding by it’s rules is part of the game. You could not change the way of life and how things work in your country and you come here for a fresh start. If you try to make it like how it was back home, then what is the difference between you and the regime in power there? Again, why did you come here?
1 comment:
this is because we are iused to our own life.
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