Dec 28, 2009

No-No Boy | Topics for Further Study

Conduct some interviews with some first- and second-generation immigrants from any country, either from your school or the local community, and make a class presentation on the different attitudes each generation has to its country of origin and to the United States. How do the second-generation immigrants, born as U.S. citizens, regard the United States? Do they make efforts to learn about the culture of their parents?

Asian immigrants are sometimes known as the model minority. Research this expression. What does it mean and why are Asians thought to embody it? Is the term...