Cultural Assimilation and its Delusions

Cultural Assimilation and its Delusions, I found this tittle very accurate. In the media the process of assimilation has always been seen as an easy process acquire by everyone living in the USA. I wonder if the people who make these movies, who write these plays and books have ever experience the process of assimilation. As I began reading this week's article I could not help feeling angry ot how ignorant people can be. The graduation ceremony put on by Ford Company was just another example of how the world perceives the process emerging into the American culture. As I was reading the article I wished that the play put on by the students included some sort of struggles and obstacles they overcame. Another thing that stood out to me which I did not like was the fact that during the play the “men shaded their ethnic costumes and put on new blue suits”. This make me wonder, in order to successfully complete the assimilation process one has to shed their ethnic costumes, essentially meaning that the individual has to lose all aspects of his native language. It is impossible to “shed” ones identity because it is who you are.  In the article Kuma says that the “ethnics are unmeltable because, in spite of the passage of time, they kept in touch with their ethnics roots”.  The more I began reading and learning, the more I start to refute to concept of the melting pot and resent why there is so much emphasis on it