My neighborhood is Archer Heights. It is mainly a Hispanic neighborhood.
For this community project I will be interviewing my mother (Abigail Rodriguez), my neighbor who has lived in the neighborhood for a long time and is one of the few Polish residents still here, and the owner of Chip's corner store because he meets a lot of the people in the neighborhood and might be able to share what their dreams were when they came here.
The parts of the American dream that are present in my neighborhood are : success and opportunity. I hope to find out how my neighborhood was able to reach the position it is in because it is a higher middle class neighborhood, that was native to Polish immigrants.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
American Dream
Success of Immigrants’ Children Measured
Second-generation Americans, children of immigrants from the 1960s, are doing better than the foreign born and the general population in one area, education.
Some motifs of the American Dream involve opportunity and success and that is exactly what the second-generation Americans were able to receive and achieve from their parents coming to America. Immigrants come to America not necessarily for themselves but for their children; they come to find a better life for their children.
Being provided with the opportunity to receive a higher education is one of the main reasons immigrants travel to America. Their time wasn't wasted at all because “36 percent [of the second generations Americans] have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 29 percent of the foreign born and 31 percent of all adults.” That is a very big deal especially because they have done better than the overall population. With that education they are already in a much better position than most other Americans and are able to have a better paying job than them too.
This second-generation is living proof that even through the struggles as living as children of immigrants, one can still succeed and may even do better than the general population. It’s the struggles that they have to push through that make them want to persevere in order to give their kids a better life than what their parents had given them by migrating to America. The idea of the American Dream is not only for the foreign born or the second-generation it’s for those after them and for those who were already here too.
Second-generation Americans, children of immigrants from the 1960s, are doing better than the foreign born and the general population in one area, education.
Some motifs of the American Dream involve opportunity and success and that is exactly what the second-generation Americans were able to receive and achieve from their parents coming to America. Immigrants come to America not necessarily for themselves but for their children; they come to find a better life for their children.
Being provided with the opportunity to receive a higher education is one of the main reasons immigrants travel to America. Their time wasn't wasted at all because “36 percent [of the second generations Americans] have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 29 percent of the foreign born and 31 percent of all adults.” That is a very big deal especially because they have done better than the overall population. With that education they are already in a much better position than most other Americans and are able to have a better paying job than them too.
This second-generation is living proof that even through the struggles as living as children of immigrants, one can still succeed and may even do better than the general population. It’s the struggles that they have to push through that make them want to persevere in order to give their kids a better life than what their parents had given them by migrating to America. The idea of the American Dream is not only for the foreign born or the second-generation it’s for those after them and for those who were already here too.
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