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Immigrant Children Lose Their Cultural Identity

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Immigration Over the course of the last couple hundred years, many immigrants have moved to America in hope to find life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When they reach America they find out that they don’t fit in as easy as they thought they would. In many cases, immigrant children often feel they must lose their cultural identity in order to be an American: because they have to learn to be white and fit in, because it’s a country that gives people chances, and because if they want to be successful they have to learn English. The first, way that immigrants children have to learn to lose their cultural identity is by learning to be white and fit in. The way they succeed into doing that is by acting and doing white people things . One

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