Everybody what to know where are they from and who they are and it doesn’t matter if you are Polish, Filipino, Iranian, or any other nationality. While we are growing up we discover many things about ourselves. The most discover age is teenager, when people try to figure out what they like, how they want to look like, to which group belong. As a young girl I tried to listen different types of music, and what comes after that meet different people from any social groups. The same was with clothing, and with my behavior. It took many years to figure out who I am, what I rally like and how I want my future to look like. I figured out my priorities in life, my goals and slowly I’m going this specific way, to rich it.
Some people are searching for “them” all theirs life. They are trying new stuff, failing, trying something new. It easily- seen how people want belong anywhere, to not be by them self in life. In “Funny in Farsi” Firoozeh learned how to be Iranian in America. Her parents and other members of family thought her about her culture and history and about that being a decent person is more important than any rule (example with father’s ham, when he said that no matter what people eat , the important is how theirs behavior).
Immigrants have all the time more difficult to find their identity. They are born in another country with another history, culture, habits and language and they are living with country where another laws should be obeyed. I meet few people who told me that they are Polish and they even don’t speak polish and even never visited Poland. My friend from Indie was there only for 2 weeks for vacation but when he is asked about his nationality he doesn’t say that he is American, every time he is saying that he is Indian.
Some people are searching for “them” all theirs life. They are trying new stuff, failing, trying something new. It easily- seen how people want belong anywhere, to not be by them self in life. In “Funny in Farsi” Firoozeh learned how to be Iranian in America. Her parents and other members of family thought her about her culture and history and about that being a decent person is more important than any rule (example with father’s ham, when he said that no matter what people eat , the important is how theirs behavior).
Immigrants have all the time more difficult to find their identity. They are born in another country with another history, culture, habits and language and they are living with country where another laws should be obeyed. I meet few people who told me that they are Polish and they even don’t speak polish and even never visited Poland. My friend from Indie was there only for 2 weeks for vacation but when he is asked about his nationality he doesn’t say that he is American, every time he is saying that he is Indian.
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Kasia, I think of identify as something that can change during our life and depends where we live and how long we have lived there. I wonder what your answer will be in 20 years.
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