The Arrival And Growing Up Asian In Australia

Culture is always changing. Beliefs, behaviours and presentation, religion and language all form part of what is an individual’s or community’s culture. (Bowes, Grace, & Hodge, 2012, p.75 & 77). Due to its intrinsic nature, when people migrate to Australia, they bring their culture with them. As migrants come from all over the world, and not the one place, their

“The Arrival,” by Shaun Tan, is a wordless novel that depicts the experience immigrants go through when vacating their home countries to start new in a different country. Readers can see that on the first page there is a collage of headshots from multiple people of different ethnicity and religion. The first image page of the wordless novel helps viewers get a clearer image of what the novel is about. In “The Arrival,” Shaun Tan depicts the hardships and enjoyment that immigrants experience when moving to a new country, since the piece was written in 2006, there seems to be more hardships than enjoyment when coming to the United States, which means the idea of the United States being a melting pot is flawed.

Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi compared and contrasted to Simone Lazaroo’s The Asian Disease exhibited in Alice Pung’s anthology Growing up Asian in Australia both explore the cultural expectations which subsequent to behaviours of detachment from tradition evidenced in the children of migrant families. Since complying to such unreasonable conditions is arduous for the protagonists in both texts, teenage girl Josie and the ill father are both victims to the loss of their individual identity in consequence to their traditional expectations. Such bereavement of personality is depicted throughout the texts when both characters undergo the harsh criticism of others which defines racism, the lowering of their self-esteem in result of the oppression they endure and the substantial struggle of Josie and the father having to establish a fulfilling life for themselves.

The teenage years and transition to adulthood is in itself a very difficult period. Blending or fitting in are omnipresent issues that must be dealt with. For children of immigrants, this difficulty is only intensified through language. Both Amy Tan and Khang Nguyen strategically use narrative anecdotes and employ several rhetorical devices to illustrate this struggle in their works, “Mother Tongue” and “The Happy Days,” respectfully. Amy Tan chooses her childhood home as the primary setting of her work. This allows her to focus primarily on her conversations and interactions with her mother. However, she also gives several anecdotes in which her mother’s background and improper English negatively affected her, outside the home. Through

Migrants and immigrants are from a whole different world, although many authors in Growing up Asian in Australia were born in Australia and while their customs and traditions are seen as the norm to them they are seen as different by many Australians. These cultural traditions and practices are far from what the majority are used to and so are neither known nor understood. This result usually in people misunderstanding migrant’s individuality and can cause unfair exclusion. Governed was horrified when the school bully accused her of wiping her “butt with her hands” on the terms of her Indian background and as a result had to deal with constant teasing and taunts

Mother Tongue is a story that describes how Amy Tan’s mother was treated unfairly because of her “broken English”. As the second generation of Chinese immigrants, Tan faces more problems than her peers do. Her mom, who speaks “limited” English, needs Tan to be her “translator” in order to communicate with the native English speakers. Tan has felt ashamed of her mother “broken” language at first. She then contemplates her background affected her life and her study. However, she changes her thought at the end since she realizes things behind language might be more valuable than language itself sometimes. Through the various different literary devices and rhetorical strategies such as the ethos, pathos, and logos appeals, as well as a

Belonging is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a wide range of different aspects. The need to belong to family and culture is a universal human need which provides a sense of value and emotional stability, and in many respects forges one’s identity. Alienation and disconnection often creates feelings of isolation, depression and loss of identity. A struggle with cultural identity is evident in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, where he examines a division between his pre-war Polish heritage and his newfound Australian way of life. The movement away from his European cultural heritage towards a more Australian identity created disorientation for Skrzynecki, and these feelings of disconnection

English is an invisible gate. Immigrants are the outsiders. And native speakers are the gatekeepers. Whether the gate is wide open to welcome the broken English speakers depends on their perceptions. Sadly, most of the times, the gate is shut tight, like the case of Tan’s mother as she discusses in her essay, "the mother tongue." People treat her mother with attitudes because of her improper English before they get to know her. Tan sympathizes for her mother as well as other immigrants. Tan, once embarrassed by her mother, now begins her writing journal through a brand-new kaleidoscope. She sees the beauty behind the "broken" English, even though it is different. Tan combines repetition, cause and effect, and exemplification to emphasize

Chinese people have been the majority of migrants in Australia. They have worked and have create their communities in Australia. Nowadays, there are a number of Chinese town in Australia and also, in Australian universities, many Chinese people are studying. In Australian history, it is well- known that many Chinese labours worked at gold mines. Also, under the White Australian Policy, they experienced racial discriminations. However, there is still some unknown history, that those Chinese migrants had experienced here in Australia. This essay will investigate historical facts, which Chinese migrants experienced the nineteenth century. Firstly, this essay will introduce several causes, which led the Chinese to go to Australia. Secondly, it will argue that the Chinese people were not welcomed migrants. Thirdly, it will explain how the Chinese migrants maintained their ethnic identity within Australia. Next, it will explain how the Chinese established their own community in order to maintain their own identities. Finally, it will examine that the Chinese race relationship with the Australian can be fit to the psychological theory of racism.

Okay, now I don’t want to alarm anyone in this room, but it has comes to my attention that Australia needs to have an increase of temporary work visas for high-skilled immigrant workers. As you know our country is filled with many people talented in different categories but the issue is that even these talents are not enough to seal Australia’s job sectors. During early 2007, Australia has targeted Europe and particularly the UK to help them resolve the problem. But that wasn’t enough workers so during that year and the upcoming 8 years, there has been an extreme lack of skilled professionals in Australia particularly in Medicine and other Health related fields.

The changing environments throughout the ages have caused the movement of thousands of families out of their homelands. Whether forced to make such decisions or doing so by their own desires, all immigrants have had to survive the physical and psychological challenges encountered along the way. To speak about the experiences of all these different people using the same ideas and examples would be quite inaccurate. They all, however, had to live through similar situations and deal with similar problems. Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found only hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed.

Migration studies are a field that can be and should be analyzed and explored in conjunction with other fields of thought and disciplines. By linking migration studies to other theories and approaches an intersectional look at migration is achieved. In order to understand migratory experiences and processes thoroughly, different lenses must be applied in order to ensure that all migrants have a voice, not just a select few. By lenses, I mean highlighting how gender, race, class, ethnicity, etc., shape migrants’ experiences.

The Australian government has developed policies for promoting social integration of newcomers in the basis of that migrants from various racial, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds play an important role in shaping the country. From 2007, the Social Inclusion Unit has been established to improved the social integration of various vulnerable groups. Migrants, especially those from non-English speaking countries, have been the main targets of social integration programs.

In “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan an American writer, shares her experience growing up with the family where no one speaks perfect English, and how it affected her education and her life. As the second generation of Chinese immigrants, Tan faces more problems than her peers do. Her mother, who speaks limited English needs Tan to be her “Translator” to communicate with the native English speakers. Tan states, “I was ashamed of her English” (2). Her mother is like a burden to her, at least in Tan’s early years. But the cultural conflict she becomes the theme of her writing and it is under this situation she wrote many novels and essays including “Mother Tongue.”

Many science-fiction movies often have a common theme either the aliens or turn into a generic overwhelming threat and humanity has to band together to fight against them, like in the films such as Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles, or the aliens are use as a more colorful backdrop to make the universe seem more diverse, such as in the films Star Trek and Star Wars, or they are left entirely out and focus on humanity's endeavors into space and their failings. Arrival, however, is a science-fiction film that uses the premise of an alien invasion to disguise an even deeper meaning. Arrival uses this premise to tackle the issue of xenophobia. Xenophobia is an intense or irrational fear or dislike of people from a foreign country or culture. The film, Arrival, is a testament against xenophobia and shows that if humanity were to overcome their fear of the unknown and work together, they may achieve a great number of things.