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Macaulay Honors College
at Baruch, Spring 2011Professor Els de Graauw
ITF Emily Sherwood -
Authors
▪ Alyssa Alicino
▪ Brandon Baksh
▪ Ru Xiao Chen
▪ Belinda Chiu
▪ Els de Graauw
▪ Becca Glickman
▪ Elisabeth Greenberg
▪ Doris Hu
▪ Peky Huang
▪ Toby Joseph
▪ Haesol Jun
▪ Nika Kartvelishvili
▪ Farrukh Khan
▪ Holly Kiang
▪ Julian Kipnis
▪ Kar Yi Lim
▪ Yang Lin
▪ Cait McCarthy
▪ Sofya Moshkovich
▪ Mariya Tuchinskaya
▪ Ying Zhang Login
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Lack of Help
Daisy immigrated to the United States from India. She is now 58 years old and has been in the country for over 28 years. When asked whether she received assistance during the immigration process, she replied:
There is no organizations here helping out at all. Now, there is. But back then, you had to fend for yourself. Currently, we go to church, but then we did not know about the church when we came here. Only family helped us.”
Discrimination is Natural
Daisy immigrated to the United States from India. She is now 58 years old and has been in the country for over twenty-eight years. She shared her thoughts on discrimination in the United States:
This is immigrant country. People are from all parts of the world, so it’s not like one country where people are all from the same place so there is… it is… people look different from others, so that is why there is discrimination. It is, it is natural. […] People come from you know… same group of people, same belong to same… they stick together. But you know, because of your color, because of all races, because of all that, it will never change. There are others who think they are better, that their race is better, and that [the] other race is wrong. Discrimination never will go away. It is natural.”
Tit for Tat
Daisy immigrated to the United States from India. She is now 58 years old and has been in the country for over 28 years. She mentioned the following when asked about her political tendencies:
We don’t vote or support any party. As we see it we vote. It depends on what we care and what applies to us. Then we vote on who helps us most.”
The Difficulty of Immigrating
Daisy immigrated to the United States from India. She is now 58 years old and has been in the country for over 28 years. Here, she talks about the challenges of being an immigrant in the United States:
Oh, the [immigration] process was long, 6 months to one year. It was very tough. We were just coming here. I was not comfortable here. I had no one here then. I came thinking I know everything I need to have success. But no. I had an interview. They responded after a while. It was very hard though, you know, Indian way of life and American, very different, very hard to adapt. But because I was professional, I had to do many other things. Apply for permit, get it, take state board, take test after test. It was very difficult.”
