the new york times had an op ed written by to u_c_l_a_ professors that talked
about the importance of assimilation and a
talked about a in the context of the boston bombing now i should note and
preface this by saying that they're not blaming the lack of assimilation uh...
as the cause of the bombing in boston
however they are saying that
there should be more emphasis placed on the simulation uh... because it helps
immigrant children feel like they're part of the community
and not feel like they're outsiders
so now as you guys know other twenty six-year-old bomber that was uh... that
you know killed i had written on face book that he didn't understand americans
and that he didn't have a single american friend so they saw that is
something that was very jarring in the wrote about it um... i i thought it was
hard to and i actually think it's more of the reasons he the bombs and there's
a lot of people to south america built illegal boards
okay and it will examine people having to say that he's he's a loser you know
you couldn't get any friends so he was angry at the world
because the world rejected him and so that's why part of why did yes cell and
i was telling on obviously and uh...
marcellus juarez orozco and carolina uh... solarz orozco wrote this op ed and
they also did a study
on immigrant children uh... between the ages of nine fourteen of a survey four
hundred students
uh... in backing twenty different public schools over five years and so this is a
pretty good study
and he wanted to see
you know what their feelings were asking the grandchildren in the united states
and they found that they duo feel like outsiders they do feel like they're not
part of the community
and there was still like their posted in some way myself here some of the results
of the study that they did only six percent of the participates could name
teacher as someone they could go to the problem
just three percent could identify teacher who was proud of them
tuesday that's that's really
uh... this morning uh... i'm surprised those numbers are
that incredibly low and so look i've got a strong opinions on this
but it really depends on your frame of reference if it turns out
your teachers
were not people you could rely on
well you might have a different friend than i did his by teachers were great to
be honest
bread but i feel like
you were
aside from your name because obviously didn't change your name but you are a
very much willing to accept american culture and to assimilate which we
should ok so
and that is what i really wanna focus on you know i know i brought this up in the
context of the bombing but i wanted to have a broader discussion about
assimilation because
i feel like among liberals there's this divide they are there the liberals that
are very much
i would say against assimilation but they hate the idea of
act emphasizing encouraging assimilation because do you think that that means
getting rid of your culture in your heritage
but at the same time you're cutting disadvantage if you don't personally yet
look here's the breakdown normally i have a monopoly on the triggering knows
that
uh... but in this case i mean i make a rare exception and say that
uh... it is possible to different perspective on this
and it really depends on when you came over
or you know how strongly you feel about your home culture
are other experiences that you had
that you know were you befriended where it is your good teachers or their
absolutely right
the different perspectives can lead to the results from my perspective
is i'm any norma span of assimilation
and i'd just think that it did
it's gonna get you better results then it's not
in anyway like selling out i think it's just a incredibly dumb way of looking at
it
whether it's my believe that is
philosophically i'd believe in the american idea i'd leave in american
culture
and i think that the american culture what it does is it blurbs every other
culture so i'm having a meter additional takes a look good parts of
you know like shit about the search for your bid assimilated
uh... resistance is to go
okay uh... your armenian don't think they could possibly armenian good parts
are being jewish it's at a rate
in the
creates is what i things a wonderful mix of culture now outlook some people would
have been goin mercruiser jingoistic in europe
and he of course as downsides were not fox news here snuggle worlds are black
and white
but to me up and like american culture i love the new sports the food everything
here
and i think it and honestly and this is one the bad guy
the guys who the people who don't assimilate their rub me the wrong way
amp and being honest as i know you make a very interesting point there because
it was another thing that was addressed by these professors okay
when it passed uh... what americans fought about immigrants and their
national origin sixty five percent of the students provided negative
objectives
most americans think we're lazy gangsters drug addicts
at that point we came to take their jobs away a fourteen-year-old boy in the bay
area told us
that but that sucks and i defend them against those characterizations of those
stereotypes
and i think the people who do that
uh... at the same time i get again from my perspective brought up turkish they
are the guys who would come to be there for me
turkey here
amy billig artwork is all part of the armstrong erica are great
physical i think in fact have added hearts
are a go back and enjoy the bottle
yeah i certainly
uh... experience armenians that have the same type of mentality alarming is so
much better than american idol you know and and of course
that family members here in the united states that went through allot just to
get them here
uh... but but it's such a great point and i think the part of that is that i
feel
you should be grateful this great opportunity here now lump this in so
many ways it got limited we fly back to try to brought me an opportunity here so
that everybody can get a but my dad went through a lot to give us your my uncle
went through a lot to get us here
anytime you're here to get in you know you know the won't always there are
data why it is india and not by itself so i do think that there is you know
importance to assimilate and not as active x
i dot my opinion on it isn't as strong as yours is not liking that it is
important to maintain your culture and still enjoy your heritage nationality
but of course you know there are certain things that will put you at a
disadvantage so
one thing that i remember steven talking to me about is his name right so steve
isn't his
main right-wing exactly he changed his name to assimilate
uh... and he said that that
helped him on the in terms of job opportunities and things like that
because
it sounds american right hand and for some reason and you know americans will
immediately
not all of them this is kind of a general statement that you seek and and
as nickname
and your less likely to get hired at certain jobs we've done study after
study on that you can get so it's it's age
you're putting yourself in some sort of some percentage disadvantage
now nonetheless i'd put my some of that disadvantage there so justice who simply
doesn't mean you sell out i'd left my name is jake you greatest in pronounce a
bull and it's up to the scene is pronounced change and the other day uber
or
winder it's impossible right
but i believe in in being a turkish american i'm really proud of being a
terror
a night i bet on the show time might be quick that would be strong and satara
and so you don't have to give up your identity you don't have to give up your
ethnicity
in order to civility america you could have bottled
and began that would be too judgmental to some people come later in life it's
harder for them to jobs and they accepted less the once when he got a new
nor was it a frustrated as well i didn't want to anyway yeah you're right about
that
and i think that we should also represent the other side a little bit as
well because you know in some cases you come to the country's immigrant let's
say you're older let's say you're in your team
annual entered the school system with the public school system where these
clicks are already formed right so you come in and maybe you don't speak
english perfectly um... maybe you don't understand american culture perfectly
and people already have taking you out of their group so there needs to be some
sort of way
to encourage kids to be more accepting see that's a great planet because
but as much as i want people to simulate in that sometimes a given what if they
don't
we should help them rather fight them great if you do this stereotypes and you
say oh well i'm not gonna hire an immigrant more i think their you know
all the things that you described there
well then it's not surprising that they don't want to join you right instead of
we had and you know there was that people don't remember this right
especially our generation
but what's really interesting that american histories
there was a time when america was much more welcoming
candlelight that came to this country
within a couple of months he wasn't invited to the white house
because they love immigrants packed and they like a look at this turkish
engineer kid came all the way from turkey bank jeff you would like to have
me some have agreed to
because of the white house at something
random family that they were sustained with my dad and my mom let me just got
married like you know what we're going to make a ship or or the new through
school or something right they're older
the sort of a fisherman in our house
you guys wanna join us
bypass and no money
i mean this was not a hundred and then went down there and they had a great
time in miami because of the generosity of these great american thread
we had a time like that in america we need to go back to a time like that in
america so some like my dad was yelling at the time thought might dot isle of
america
date you went back and turkey disorders career they can make it this is such a
positive image of america
and is that what in this case
that's america we want so that people are ecstatic about assimilating into it
so both sides need to reach out and get to a better place