1. Group E--bnew26

For Bnew26´s question, my character in the book and the person in the same TED talk I have, aren't as much related to discrimination by wealth, but more of race. Trevor Noah, a comedian and the author of my book faces racism for both being half white and black, from people who are ignorant of the reason for his biracial ethnicity, he doesn't fit in with any kids and stays alone but in the TED talk, "Because I was light-skinned, people assumed I was Coloured. Coloured people assumed I was white. And white people, well, white people weren't sure what I was, but they knew I wasn't one of them." (Noah, Chapter 6), Chimamanda tells us of when she moved to America and faced the same ignorant discrimination from white people in America, somewhat assuming the Nigerian men are brutes who abuse women. but both people also decide to combat this, Trevor decides to learn about both White and Black cultures and their languages, and Chimamanda decides to tell stories about Africa and spread a dynamic range of perspectives so people who do not originate/visit from Africa know not just of rumors, but genuine stories.

In my book “ Out of Nowhere” by Maria Padian, Tom is a senior in high school and captain of the soccer team. His season is changed when Somali immigrants join the team and they are very skilled and better than pretty much everyone else on the team. One of these players is named Saeed, who Tom quickly befriends and even helps him fill out the permission slip so that he's allowed to play. With the help of the new teammates the soccer team starts winning games however Tom makes a big mistake, he and his troublemaker friend Donnie decide to paint their rival highschools special rock. They get caught in the act and everyone is mad at Tom, his parents, his coach, his principal, everyone. Tom gets sentenced to 100 hours of community service and has to repaint the rock back to how it was. At school the immigrants have a hard time finding classes and navigating the school because they barely know English. The confusion leads to other kids making fun of and picking on them which creates a hostile environment in the school. What doesn't help is the rule that the school puts in that students are only allowed to speak English in classrooms which makes it very difficult for the immigrants to communicate.

The Somali immigrants are being seen as annoying and dumb because they don't know how to speak English well and they don't understand what people are saying to them. people also perceive their language as them talking bad about people and don't like them for that. " So now your school has an English only policy in the classroom. If immigrant kids so much as say 'can I borrow your calculator?' in their own language, they get detention."( Padian 121). This affects all of the immigrants in the school because they already struggle with English and this only makes it worse for them

I like how you included the detail about how they are too poor to afford a dentist or a doctor, it really helps In-vision what these people are going through in their new home.

In my book Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue the Jonga family is an immigrant family from Cameroon that moves to New York. Jende Jonga, who is one of the parents, is employed by a rich investment banker, Clark Edwards, as a chauffeur or daily driver. He drives around Clark and his family and learns that just because they are rich they don’t seem to be too happy. For a short time, Jendes' wife, Neni, was employed by the Edwards as a maid or caretaker in their summer home. The Jongas are both treated very well by the Edwards family. They treat them with respect and treat them almost like family, “Dresses and stuff. I’m not sure if it’s your style, but you can have it all.” (Mbue 125) In this quote, Cindy Edwards offers to give Nini all of her old designer clothes, even offering some kids clothes for Ninis son. There are lots of moments like this in the book. Clark is very trusting of Jende and tells him a lot of things about the company he works for and about one of his sons, Vince, who is trying to leave America to live in India. All of this mutual trust and help from one another seems to put both families in better moods regarding each other. The Edwards seem happy to have Jende as a family driver and Nini as a waiter or housekeeper when the situation arises and they seem mutually interested in each other's family life as well. Seeing how they deal with their children and their life outside of New York.

What if the Edwards family was treating the Jonga family poorly how would that have impacted the Jonga family and how would there situation have been instead of being treated good.