Immigrants

The social group that I chose to write about are immigrants. These stories show that immigrants leave their countries of birth because its dangerous or because they want more money to help their family.

The experience of being part of The immigrant social group  The life of an immigrant is not easy they have to work really hard to get some money so they can eat,drink, and so they can have somewhere to sleep. Many immigrants sometimes work really hard in the field, construction, and other jobs that are really hard but don't get paid much.

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The individuals in this social group are different from one another because they bring come to the U.S. to work and to give their families a better life.. An example of this is the movie “The Harvest ( La Cosecha)” because in this movie it shows how an immigrant family from Mexico came to the U.S. to work in the fields since they can’t better jobs. Successes that the group has faced has been is that over time immigrants have been given work permits and their kids are getting scholarships. Challenges that the group has faced are not knowing english and not being able to get better paid jobs because they don’t have work permits. Certain perspectives that are missing from this collection are like how much people work but don’t get paid as much.

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The challenges that individuals in this group face that other people outside the group might not understand are that immigrants don’t have a secure job and home because since they don’t have papers they can lose jobs and it’s hard for them to get another jobs. I think that others can do the following to understand this social group by just thinking of how your life would be if you had to work really hard for the whole day and not get paid enough for rent or to eat, imagine brings your kids to work so they can work and with you, imagine being scared when you see a cop car because if they ask you fro paper and you don’t have some then you lose everything. . Assumptions that people might make about people who identify within this social group could be that they think that they are all bad and that are in gangs and smokers but that only some people but they identify everyone as a bad person and they think that they are here to hurt people or to expand their gangs but in reality they just want a better life for their family and a future for their kids. Stereotypes can negatively affect individuals who identify within this group because if they see that someone messes up then they think that they are all the same and that they are all bad. Stereotyping is wrong because not every immigrant is bad.

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Communities can make groups that go out to the desert and find immigrant with water and food or people can help them by giving them a shelter or by helping them find jobs. This will help the social group because they don’t have to worry about a place to sleep or they don’t have to worry about their kids going to school. What I can do in particular to help this social group is make donations to shelters.