Comparing

            On Ligny Blog I learned that her family decendents were from Spain, and back then woman would have many children and adopt also. Part of her famlt immigrated to one place to another. Her grandmother had to do minor works to be able to support her large family. Her blog also had do with the Chineese immigrants.

            Elsa's journal entry has to do with a Japanese girl. I could compare her entry alot with mine because i also did my blog about Japan. I like it because it explained how japanese poeple really suffered going to the U.S. In which they moved to Hawaii for a better life.

           Arshad's video I liked because it explained that people shouldn't forget about the eventshat happened because it is part of history that also shows that these events make what Ireland is today. People shouldn't forget but not holding revenge or any kind of hate in there hearts because that ends up to cause many conflicts and discrimination and racism.

          Stephanie's blog i learned that people from Italy were the most who immigrated to the U.S. They moved because they wanted to begin a better life and when they did move the had low class jogs in which they didnt earn to much money. Every year more and more Italians moved to the U.S. They worked very hard to keep go up in classes.

Guatemalan & Puerto Rican

        My heritage is a very weird mix. I am half Guatemalan and half Puerto Rican, my mother is Puerto Rican and my father is Guatemalan. My father was an illegal alien in which entered the U.S illegally. He went through a lot, he had to go through dessert and sometimes there were not enough water to drink and had to drink his own pee to be kept alive. It took him 2 months to arrive to Texas and then from there take a plane and go to Virginia. After took a bus to Rhode Island.

          Now he is currently legal, has a green card. Travels every year to Guatemala. I have many family members from my Fathers side in which they are illegal. My brother went through the same my dad went through. My uncle was caught through dessert and was sent to jail. Trying to immigrate from one place to another and especially illegally isn't easy. They go through many risks physically and mentally. They go through days in starvation and with not a bit of water to drink.

            What i learned from my family is that life wasn't easy especially my dad's side. My mother has been legal since the day she was born and had no trouble to immigrate from one place to another but in the other hand, my dad went through a lot to be where he is now and be the person he is today. He worked hard to be the person and the role model he is now. He inspires me so much to fight for my dream because his dream since he was a child was to move to the U.S and have a better life and so he did and he didn't give up until he achieved it and thats inspiring.

I agree with him in many things it explains the discrimination Japan is having and how hard it is for them to go through these stuff. This guy has more videos regarding to this, but this is one in which i thought it was interesting. Immigiration from Japan isn't easy for them or for the others they face racism and sometimes treated differently as enemy aliens.

Life being Japanese

           Day 56
      We have arrived in Hawaii about 3 weeks ago, its been hard but i still have the faith that I can earn enough money to bring my family here. Even though were going through discrimination i know that we will have a future here. Samantha is a friend that i met here, she is from Italy. She also has been through a lot just like me. We've had days in which we had no food to eat nor water to drink.In the night we would share are stories and how tuff it was to be where we are today.

       Doing agricultural work is hard, I sweat more than a pig does. But sometimes i think its worth it but other times i don't. All I want is to see my family, especially my mother. I would do anything to see her again. I work night and day just to see her face again, I know someday I will have a brighter future for her and my family. We've been treated as enemy aliens and sometimes i think its not fair because we are not all bad. Some of us do deserve to be here and others don't.

        No one understand what we immigrants go through. The image we used to have in our minds of the U.S I now know everything was a lie. I imagined it here as if it were heaven. As a place i would find God at. But now I know life here is so much harder than what I thought. I see my people going through the same thing i am and it hurts cause i don't want them to.

         If I had the opportunity to tell all my people from Japan what life really is here I would tell them to stay over there better. I just go through so many things in which i starve, I work, I sometimes don't have the time to bathe and life over there in my country was so much easier than what i go through now. Only if i had the opportunity. I do get paid well but now that the war has ended and business is very slow now its so much harder to earn money. But i know one day god will help e go through all these things.

Tangai to Japan

         Most of our people who moved to the United States were single men that were farmers and farmer laborers. In which wanted to move to the U.S for a better life in which they can get money and have a new beginning. Many immigrated to Hawaii and others to the mainland. The rich were the ones who had the privileged to move to the mainland and the middle class and low class had to move to Hawaii. 

         People treated us unfairly, we were taken as custody as enemy aliens. After the war the impact was devastating because business had to be liquidated in a matter of weeks. So many of us were without jobs and the idea we had of the U.S were all false. We believed that this place was going to be filled with gold and the streets were made out of silver and gold. Everything was just a dream that was to good to be true. 

        We were discriminated for being Japanese. Many people of our surroundings treated us unfairly and were racist. As I mentioned earlier we ere treated as enemy aliens. All the effort that we did to arrive in the U.S for a better life was like a waste of time. We suffered and did hard work to become what we are today. The types of jobs we had were agricultural laborers and acquiring farms.  

          I learned that people who immigrated to the U.S had to do hard work to become someone there and have a job. Life wasn't easy and what the pictured the United States to be was all false. They began to know what life was really like there. They were discriminated and then treated offensively in which was unfair, for many Japanese.