Blog 3- "Blaxicans" and Other Reinvented Americans

America is a land of unlimited opportunities, citizens have the opportunity worship,learn, and most importantly the opportunity to do things freely and willingly. But yet in this amazing country there is a motif of being a "melting pot" where all cultures blend to be one, which is a flaw that hides the beautiful colors of this country.

"Assimilation happens" is a phrased that a lot of immigrants can relate to over a long period of time spent in the United States. Immigrants aren't looking or asking to loss their culture but can't help to be assimilated because they live in the land of the "mass media", where mainstream media favors and promotes "Americanism". What is "Americanism" you ask? Americanism can simply be explain as a plain abstract of black and white. America is a country of many faces and many colours but yet the media always builds there ads, movies, posters, etc with the colors of black and white. This effect can be explain by the fact that since all immigrants see most of the time is the American culture, so little by little they begin to lose their identity as a person of color and begin to integrate into the abstract of black and white.

"Unless you understand that I am Chinese, then you have not understood anything I have said" simply address that if you want to be any culture you can simply assimlilate into that culture, but you can only be an another culture by choice not by force.