In the TED talk, 3 Questions to Ask Yourself About US Citizenship, Jose finds out he is an undocumented and illegal immigrant at the age of 16. He faces discrimination from ‘regular people’ or ‘proper citizens’ and realizes that everyone who criticized him comes from immigration, and encourages them to be educated about their past and reason for immigrating, and redefine what a ‘proper citizen’ is to them. “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” (Vargas 7:12).
In the novel, The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz, Jamie and Angela face a similar problem, where they are judged by people from other countries, and treated like trash simply for being immigrants. “True, El Norte was huge, and there were still some empty parts. But how long would the land stay empty, especially if there were thousands sneaking in each day? He knew they were unwanted, unwelcome” (Diaz 81).
Based on your book, do you think immigrants face discrimination even from other immigrants or people who come from immigrant families?
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