Funny In Farsi Analysis

“Humans are born selfish, savage, feral little beasts, no different from wolves or tigers,” according to conservative journalist John Hawkins. In America, being an outsider, or other times called an immigrant, one gets treated differently, than they would if one is a full-fledged citizen. As an immigrant, one does not have an opportunity to live as a normal United States citizen because of those selfish human beings. The memoir Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, and the editorial cartoons “Show Me Your Papers” by Mike Luckovich and “Great American Melting Pot” by Richard Crowson all represent the same factors of how immigrants are affected; these different articles and pictures describe the process of how the immigrants are treated differently, whether it is with jobs, with people, or the way others think of them—these topics are just the base of the problem with immigration, all pertaining to the way other U.S. citizens treat immigrants.
Immigrants are affected within the way they’re treated to further them in life in jobs. In Funny in Farsi Dumas father was affected in a big way considering nobody would let him even try to get a job, “At fifty-eight, my father found himself unemployed and with no prospects. Nobody wanted to hire an Iranian” (Dumas 117). Dumas father struggle finding a job after several American

The editorial cartoon “Show Me Your Papers” shows a cartoon of a man and a family of immigrants, with the man saying “Show me your papers”(Luckovich). This picture shows that most people think that all immigrants are illegal or undocumented, and that affects most immigrant’s way of living and takes away most of their privileges. The treatment of immigrants like this, influences the way they achieve full-fledged citizenship also. Immigrants are treated way differently with this cartoon backing it up to show that people don’t understand that most immigrants, don’t ever get treated