why do, when foriegners come to the usa they create their own communities?

Question

if they did not want to leave their culture behind why did they come to the us?

Answer 1

It's for the same reason that when Europeans came here, they didn't start doing Native American tribal dances. People leave their countries for the US to find new opportunity, not to forget everything about who they are and where they came from.

Answer 2

What you describe can be called 'colonization' or 'social drifting'. That's where like groups tend to drift towards each other. In the beginning it can be a healthy move for the group and for the country. Small groups or 'minorities' find familiar people and support easier. It gives them a base or social structure to work out from. The down side is that many find it too comfortable and do not often venture out. The eventual result is an isolated community that becomes a burden to progress for the inhabitants. We have 'China town, Little Havana, Watts, Harlem', and a whole host of other communities that have become nearly dysfunctional. Not all, but some more so than others. You have heard the term 'stuck in the ghetto'. People become trapped in their own environment. They can not make it better and they can not get out. Crime and violence is the order of the day. There is no restraint. The need to survive becomes more important than morality. We wind up with a community in which the vast majority of the inhabitants have developed a 'criminal world view'. Its too late at this point to help the adults, and not much hope for the young. The sad part-people do this to themselves and blame someone else. Which unfortunately leaves us with unfounded hate.

Answer 3

Can you imagine what it would be like to move to the middle of Cambodia, barely speaking the language and now you have to find a place to live, a job, food and so on? Now what if you knew of a pocket of Americans already living there. You could talk to them, get help finding a home, finding a job, finding a McDonald's. Now that you are settled, you're learning how to speak a little Cambodian, you've learned to appreciate some of their foods but your kids are afraid of going to an all Cambodian school. So you are stuck in your neighborhood.

Those few foreigners that do venture out and try to blend into the Melting pot are the courageous ones. The ones that came to America not to escape their governments but to become an American are what makes this country great.

The trouble is, often they are met with suspicion, isolation and downright hatred in some cases. It is just safer to stay withing your own 'community'.

Hope this gives you the perspective you are looking for.

Answer 4

They create their own communities because they want to preserve some of their culture and the reason they come here is because there are not many opportunities where they come from and the USA is where the opportunities are at. What is wrong with preserving your culture regardless of where you are at? Other people form their own communities because they feel alienated by the mainstream.

Answer 5

People stick together in groups when they feel insecure. When a foreigner comes to the USA he/she has endless adjustments to make and often feels alienated even if he/she wasn't forced to come. By being close to others from your own culture, you can learn about the new ways in the new society gradually and more comfortably and adjust over time.People come to America to study and/or work or just survive because they believe they will have a better life there.

Answer 6

Because it's awesome!!! Some wacko japanese, do leave their culture and try to act all white.. but not us smart people, we form our communities because we are not brainwashed like many people in the east. Some of them come to usa because they fall in love with the usa from its movies, and whatever they get from the media. Us,poor latins, MOVIES??? i never in the world heard or knew usa movies.... just hear about the usa from word of mouth, so we're not going for glammor or because we're white brainwashed. So we form communities cause we help eachother out. That's what communities do, we help eachother out. do you expect white people to help us... ?

Answer 7

Think about it. If you were to go to a foreign country, wouldn't you be comforted by people who spoke your language and shared your culture.

People come to the United States for economic opportunity, to escape oppressive regimes, and other reasons like that. They don't come here to strip themselves of their identity. Nor, should they be expected to.

Answer 8

What else do you have in the USA besides foriegners?

Answer 9

Its not just in the US its a phenomena that can be witnessed all over the world. People want to be their kind. Language, culture, trust, assitance, friends all attract a certain people group to a certain area....

Answer 10

Why do people born in the U.S. create their own communities, never allowing foreigners in?