The American dream at one point in time was the ultimate fantasy for families migrating to the United States. However through out history, even if a person or persons has exceeded into the United States as a legal U.S. citizen they are not treated as such. The clip in class regarding the aliens in south africa touched on this issue. If someone is not born here, but knows that a better life is in America, or in the Aliens case earth, then why would they not want to try and move. When Immigrants try and begin their lives in the United States, they begin to try and fit into the norms of what our culture has developed. Since we see that they do not know how to act and behave to become an "excepted" U.S. citizen we begin to classify and use them. The clip demonstrated this through its website. The employeement opportunities for "aliens" were very poor quality jobs that humans new no body wanted. Since this is the only type of empolyeement humans offered to the aliens, they wanted to fit into society and expect these jobs to try and make it into our culture. Immigrants our no different from us, and if they travel to the United States in search of a better life and demonstrate that they can complete tasks and jobs in our society, what gives us the right to pick and choose their opportunities and income values. Just because most Americans are born with endless opportunities does not give us the right to stop others from different places to access these chances too.
Discussion Questions:
1. Is it right to deny a person of the same opportunties you have had as a U.S. citizen because they are not from America?
2. Can you describe a time in which you witnessed an immigrant being taken advantage of due to their status?
3. What can we do as U.S. citizens to fix this problem?
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