Reflection on Munoz

What qualities, conditions, or circumstances make adapting/assimilating into a culture possible or impossible? For many people who immigrate to another country like Latinos immigrating to the U.S have to go through many circumstances where they have to make though decisions about their future. For example many Latinos have to adapt to a whole different culture and system of living, it is possible to adapt to the culture but there has to be many changes in their lives, when it comes for them to look for a job its hard to find it for many reason, one of them its their name. Sadly people are judged by how they are named instead of how they work or their personality if they hear the name Pedro, Jose or Maria they know that they are immigrants and think the worst of them and most of the times because of how people are named they don’t get the job so people have done something about it and they “leave their names at the border” this means that they change their names to a more “white name” so they can have a better opportunities and can find a job to support their families. It is possible to adapt to the “American” culture but it feels like its impossible to do it and there are many people that don’t change the way they are how they are named because they are proud of who they are and where they come from but this society push them to change all those things to be accepted in this country. I believe that people should be accepted because of who they are not because of how they are named or how they look but society looks at it from a different point, if you don’t have a good name it will be harder to get a good job so people who don’t want to change who they are end up in jobs that don’t pay them right or threat them bad and there is nothing they can do about it because they know how its going to be when they try to get something better. There is so much more that this country has to change because immigrants have been part of it since the beginning and thanks to them this country is great.