Who is Coming to America?
May 15, 2009
Discussion Questions:
- What factors motivate people to move from one country to another?
- How do immigrants learn about their new country? To what extent should they change their customs and habits to be the same as those in their new community?
- Visiting Germany in February 2008, the Turkish Prime Minister said that assimilation was "a crime against humanity." What do you think he meant? What is lost when immigrants assimilate to a new culture? What is gained?
- What is the difference between assimilation and integration?
- How has migration changed your community? How are immigrants treated in your community? How do you think they should be treated?
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