What academic struggles will be happened on immigrant students? What kind of thoughts will be brought up to them? In The Happiness Hypothesis, Johnathan Haidt talks about negatively bias in “Changing Your Mind”. This chapter is the best to describe the situation of the immigrant students. According to Kim and Diaz in "Immigrant Students And
Community Colleges”, they state that “immigrant students who attend community colleges tend to have lower socioeconomic status and limited English knowledge compared to those who enter four-year institutions.” (93) Many immigrant students have to do part time and face demanding work at school. The most important is they only have limited knowledge in
English. My friend, as an immigrant student, she always found difficulty in her academic field in the first two years of school in United States. She worked very hard and checked every word that she didn’t familiar in, but she was still not getting a B or higher. Her sadness and hopelessness covered all her pleasure and she thought that she would never get a better grade next time.
The cognitive problem which immigrant students have is academic struggle. This can be explained in Haidt’s book in the chapter two of “Changing Your Mind”. The chapter states that human are easily to change thoughts as human mind is flexible. Human mind tends to react to bad things strongly and sensitively. Different perspectives affect how we see an event. At the same time, thought and emotion are related and affected to each other to influence our judgment. In the book, Haidt uses “elephant” and “rider” to represent human mind and human respectively. He uses these two metaphors to explain cognitive mind throughout all chapters. Lack of English kno...
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In Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring, Angela Valenzuela investigates immigrant and Mexican American experiences in education. Valenzuela mentions differences in high schools between U.S born youth and immigrants such as how immigrants she interviewed seemed to achieve in school as they feel privileged to achieve secondary education. However, she found that her study provided evidence of student failure due to schools subtracting resources from these youths. Both are plagued by stereotypes of lacking intellectual and linguistic traits along with the fear of losing their culture. As a Mexican American with many family members who immigrated to the U.S to pursue a higher education, I have experience with Valenzuela’s
Haidt hypothesizes that happiness comes from between and is a mixture of the two sources. In order to be truly happy you must find the right relationship between yourself and your local environment and yourself and the world at whole. We must become what Haidt quotes Durkheim idea of homo duplex where humans exist on both an individual plane and a societal one which determines the emotional reactions. I’m not entirely sure on how it functions on this campus but in my hometown of Brockton MA everyone is so individualistic that no is happy. This creates a very hostile environment and causes many other problems. The information in this chapter would help prevent such an environment from sprouting on campus, because the only way to achieve true happiness and avoid such a fate is through developing relationships on both
Even if these students have achieved the highest honors and have the brains of an engineer, they aren’t able to reach their greatest potential because they simply do not have documents. Those who are undocumented are doomed to working backbreaking jobs that pay substantially below minimum wage. Spare Parts has challenged and shown me that it takes an immigrant double, or even triple the amount of toil to achieve anything in life. These boys endeavoured through adversities that many of us will never encounter. Luis luckily had a green card, but Lorenzo, Oscar, and Cristian were all living under the fear of deportation. They all wanted more after graduating from Carl Hayden but their dreams quickly vanished because the reality was that they’re illegal immigrants. When we hear the word “immigration”, we automatically think “illegal”, but what we don’t see is that these illegal immigrants are trying to reach their own American Dreams by coming to America. As the author includes Patrick J. Buchanan’s perspective on immigrants, “...families came to the United States to leech off government services.” (35), it shows us how immigrants are perceived.
In this case, the author introduces the concept of perception. In this he implies that the manner in which we are thinking matters a lot because it’s a determination of out interpretation. This is evident because we tend to perceive things differently hence this is why we have different ways in which we think about things. For example if someone recognizes drugs to be associated with evil then such an individual might believe that those taking drugs are evil people (Myers, 2013). It might be entirely different in some cases where another individual might not be thinking the same. Another concept that is discussed is that we are always readily swayed by events rather than facts. It is because events tend to remind us of the life experiences that we undergo in life, which is an indication that the mind is affected by the glitches that might make it difficult to remember the fact that we come
1. Conflicting views improve one’s moral reasoning, critical thinking, and mental dexterity, but difficult to accept because of their context and one’s cognitive dissonance (Dalton, Week 5).
Students are unable to see themselves in the product of their work. Students’ labor is used to study, work on
One principle that I believe to be an ethical principle of persuasion is “liking”. A concept in the book that helps support
Zajonc, R.B. "Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences." American Psychologist 35 (1998) : 151-175.
...he exciting fact and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.”
Immigration is a complex process that results in a transformation of identity. Depending on contextual, individual, and societal differences this transformation can have either positive or detrimental results. Initially, the immigrant will be faced with an intense culture shock while settling into a new country. During this time, cognitive functioning becomes increasingly jumbled amidst the new context, resulting in immense identity confusion. This process of acculturation involves two specific issues regarding identity for each individual. These two issues include the delicate balance between remaining ethnically distinct by retaining their cultural identity and the desire to maintain positive relations with the new society. A variety of risk factors can contribute to the success or failure at effectively acculturating. Thus, those that directly experience more risk factors experience an even more delicate and complex transition often resulting in high levels of stress, confusion, social anxiety, and declined mental health.
For more than 300 years, immigrants from every corner of the globe have settled in America, creating the most diverse and heterogeneous nation on Earth. Though immigrants have given much to the country, their process of changing from their homeland to the new land has never been easy. To immigrate does not only mean to come and live in a country after leaving your own country, but it also means to deal with many new and unfamiliar situations, social backgrounds, cultures, and mainly with the acquisition and master of a new language. This often causes mixed emotions, frustration, awkward feelings, and other conflicts. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, the author describes the social, cultural and linguistic difficulties encountered in America as he attempts to assimilate to the American culture. Richard Rodriguez by committing himself to speaking English, he lost his cultural ties, family background and ethnic heritage.
...her to feel despair. Her misery resulted in her doing unthinkable things such us the unexplainable bond with the woman in the wallpaper.
... are losing the opportunity to acquire more knowledge from their teachers who are more educated than their parents.
emotions. In a bid to reveal this, the philosophers investigate the nature of the two to define
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