In this video, Mr. Sauce, an Ecuadorian chef and one of the fastest marathon runners in New York City is featured. Mr. Sauce explains throughout the video his difficulties as an immigrant with a family, his obstacles at work, his passion of running, and his love for his wife and child leading to his sacrifices he has made and makes on a day to day basis. The biggest moment in the video that struck me was when Mr. Sauce described his internal struggle with going back to Ecuador and not being able to due to a list of reasons. One of these reasons touched me and was very powerful in relation to his son’s future if he were to leave the country and travel back home. He stated, “My son has big dreams, and I always support him. I wanted to return to Ecuador, but I also think of my …show more content…
Sauce’s home country. He confesses that he wants to go back but is forced to stay because of the love and the support he has for his son. This emotion and idea about his son and allowing him to reach his full potential, is described beautifully when Mr. Sauce shows his struggle and sacrifice by saying he wishes to goes back but it would be like clipping his son’s “wings”. This simile compares his son to an eagle or a bird who at his full potential will spread his wings and fly but if he were to go back to his home country, he would be clipping his son’s wings off and ending his dreams, desires, and goals in life. This personally stood out to me as my father, also an immigrant, had to go through the same struggle for us, his children and family, to have a better life. Even though it’s a bit different as he can enter and leave the country as he wishes due to the fact he owns the “elite” American passport and citizenship, at first he couldn’t and faced the same struggles Mr. Sauce did and still
Nieves Sanchez became an ‘illegal alien’ at the age of seven. Encountering the normal language and culture barriers that every immigrant faces. She grew up hearing the stereotypes and stigma what an illegal ‘alien’/immigrant is and what they represent. Now she has no country to really call her own, because this country won’t recognized her and her home country most likely reject her. Mostly all her life she has lived has an illegal immigrant and the burden of being an illegal alien.
Lucas Benitez is born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. when he was 17. He worked in a tomato farm and had low pay, and hard labor every day. Each day he had to wake up at five a.m. and work till five p.m.. He could not live like this any more he thought to himself. He Knew he had to do something, but he did not now what to do.
This makes the children want to work harder and worry about money because he is their primary source of income and the support that they receive. A lot of the times during work when they are out there they will be forced to skip a meal, but they do not usually complain they just keep working in order to help out. In the one part of the video you see the family taking a break and the one kid asks, “did we even eat yesterday” and someone else replies that there was too much work to take a break. Although a lot of the children do not wish to be working in the field, they all aspire to be able to finishes schools that they may find a new way of income to help support their families. Even though they all tend to be working to bring in money the main idea I think that they all share is that they will do anything for their families and them all being together is what matters most.
As a Navy Reservist in a top cargo handling unit, I found myself on an airplane more often than I could have imagined. In those 5 years, we traveled to Virginia and Texas numerous times throughout the year for our weekend meetings not to mention yearly trips to places like California, Guam and Hawaii. It doesn't matter if I was away for the weekend or for two and a half weeks, packing made me apprehensive. I knew what I must bring... the uniform and what I wanted to bring... fun clothes.
Trying to make a way in an already poor community and being different had the refugees wondering if the United States was what they really expected it to be. As Luma bonded with the boys she made a close bond with their families also. Luma wasn’t a refugees but she knew what it felt like to be an outsider. Luma helped the refugee families get jobs, also hired tutors for her players to improve their English. Luma had become a safety net for many of the refugee families.
The comedian George Lopez grew up with Mexican grandparents in Los Angeles who shaped him into the person he is today. In his comedy he talks about how it was like growing up in his Mexican family. Whether he talks about how his aunts were or the fact that he had a lemon tree in his backyard. His family thought
Being a 1.5 generation immigrant myself, I was interested to see if we shared similar experiences growing up in America especially since we’ve grown up around the same area. My interview with Mario has given me deeper understanding of the difficulties and challenges immigrants have to go through in their first few years in America. Through Mario’s experiences,
Throughout the documentary it gives you a view about how migrant families live and all the obstacles they encounter and how they overcome them. Migrant families are families who migrated
The impoverished conditions in which the residents of this community live are difficult based on the surrounding violence and discrimination they face. Tre, Ricky’s best friend, is able to survive the surrounding violence and discrimination through his father’s sensational leadership; he therefore knows what to do in situations he faces among his friends. However, his friends are not so lucky. For example, Dough doesn’t have great leadership or a father figure, but is raised by a single mother who is determined to get her children to succeed; nevertheless, her main focus is Ricky because he has the most potential; he is an
In the year 1990, my father and his family emigrated from Vietnam to the United States of America with the intention of seeking opportunities for a better life, as well as escaping the Vietnam War. The migration was a long, strenuous situation for him; he came to America without money and knowing how to speak English. Thus, he tried his best to learn English and find ways to earn money to have food. The reason for his success in America was his attitude towards the situation; my father’s objective was to become prosperous by studying and working hard. Furthermore, his determination to achieve the goal was very high.
Being a Cuban immigrant has provided me with a unique bicultural perspective that has become my support system in the United States. For the first eleven years of my life, my culture was composed of music and dancing. In every street corner of my hometown, there was a group of seniors playing domino and close by, their grandchildren dancing to the Salsa music being played on the radio to pass the time. The hardships created by the communist regime are overshadowed by memories of my mother teaching me how to sew and by my paternal grandmother teaching me how to enjoy a strong Cuban coffee. Those precious memories of home became a source of pain when I migrated to the United States.
The first two weeks living in Ecuador was a challenge.
He uses the appeal of pity, portraying how he himself has faced the same things his audience has, making him feel the same way. He says, “I'm not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver -- no, not I. I'm speaking as a victim of this American system.” He connects with the audience and shows them how he Americans have made him feel for years. He knows how he is looked upon, and is not afraid to say it.
Every day, he works harder and harder to achieve his American Dream, but is never fully able to accomplish
My most rewarding accomplishment consists of my ability to overcome the fear and weakness that was conceived upon my arrival to the United States from Mexico, in addition to a newly evolved character which allowed me to achieve academic, professional, and personal success. Nearly seven years ago, my mother and I immigrated from a harsh economic climate in Mexico that was plagued with unemployment. Additionally, our family faced bankruptcy. While holding onto our faith, we left our hometown with only what we could carry and bought two one-way bus tickets. With nothing more than fear, two bags, and $50 in each of our pockets, we set out for what would be the most challenging journey of our lives.