Week 6

In the articles we read this week, I felt very strongly about the way natives treat immigrants.  Eva, one of the women in the article, was quoted in the article, saying, "When I see that I have to do everything and nobody cares about me because-- then how can I talk to them?  I hear they doesn't care about me and I don't feel to go and smile and talk to them" (Pierce, 24).  I thought this was extremely sad that immigrants do not feel at all welcome in their new surroundings.  To learn language, you must practice all the time and if natives don't have the patience to speak with them, let alone make them feel like they belong here, immigrants won't learn as well as they should.  In this article, immigrants felt like the lowest on the social chain, getting the jobs, and interactions that make them feel powerless and unwelcome.  I feel that immigrants would learn so much more if they were treated with respect instead of contempt.