Throughout history immigrants have been coming to America. These immigrants come to America for change because of political unrest in their own countries or some sort of problem. Immigrants come to American and suffer from racism from people who have been here a little longer than them. These people who discriminate were once discriminated themselves, and this cycle continues. It is really strange how people, immigrants come to America for some sort of change but then cling together once they arrive here. Some examples would be Flushing, Chinatown, or little Italy. These are areas in NY where people attach themselves to the same people. Chinatown is an area for Chinese people and the entire area is filled with Chinese people. They stick together and isolate themselves from others. But, then the next generation that go to school with the “Americans” is mocked and detest their own culture. This is not everyone but the majority moves away and become more American. Then they go on to mock the people who are similar to their original selves, these fobs. This causes racism, stereotyping and the negative connotation with immigrants.

These stereotypes cause a lot of problems and apparently people find them funny. You’re Asian, why didn’t you get an A in math. You’re black, so you must be fast. You’re Mexican right go mow the lawn. These stereotypes care offensive and should not be present in our culture. The fact that we use them as jokes leads us to more serious problems. But in our conformist culture people will not stand up to these jokes, afraid of rejection everyone laughs. What happens is the person who is the but of the joke, even though he does not find it funny will laugh along because others who the joke does not apply to find it funny. Once they laugh then they open the gateway to more and more jokes. This isn’t as serious on most cases but in some cases where the jokes become intensified it might lead to bullying and rejection for being of a certain race. Muslim people dealt with a lot of problems after the 9/11 and not only muslim people but anyone who was even similar to them, Indians, Bengalis, Guyanese (etc.) Stereotype jokes might be funny for you but, when they intensify it can become serious.