To keep, or not to keep?
Monday, January 1, 2007 4:46:04 AM
That is a question. Here this question refers to the maintenance immigrant culture.
In the dictionary, the work “immigrant” means “A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.” Why immigrants want to immigrate? Often, there’re some sad and ponderous stories behind them. No one wants to leave the country where he born and bred. Sometimes it’s a economical depression or a political turmoil or even a war in his country, he can’t live safely in his mother country, so he choose to leave, to live a better life in another country. When he moves to the new country, he takes the original culture with him; in the new country, he maintains his own culture, to show he’s origin.
Maybe he’s sad about leaving his motherland, so he keeps his culture strictly in the new country he lives in, as the memorial of the motherland. The new country is all right about maintenance of their culture. Everyone live happily and peacefully.

But one day, it comes to the problem. In some less liberal countries, the culture and the customs, which the immigrants maintain are less liberal than those in the countries where the immigrants now living. Some of the culture or customs are even infringed on women’s rights, which act against the ideology of the new country. Then here is the problem, should immigrants be free to maintain their cultural and religious practices if they infringe on women rights?
Immigrant culture should or should not be maintained can be well solved by mutual respect and adoption. Those emigrants are looking for better life and future; they come to the new but unfamiliar place, it is reasonable and understandable to keep their customs. Like those Muslim women who wear veil to cover their faces, they do that for the reasons blend feminism with religion. Wearing veil does not commit the laws of new country, should being respected instead. People have the right to wear what the like. However, the immigrant should give way sometimes. Say if the police ask to check the ID and unveil faces, those people must not refuse, because the police may think that this guy are suspected, they may use their handcuff and take you to have a drink in the PD office.
This is so-called mutual respect and adoption, the new country respect those immigrants and protects their rights, at the same time the new comers should cooperate with the new government. People can’t take photograph of ID card with their veil on, if that so the ID lost its sense. How can authority identify a person only by a piece of cloth and a pair of eyes? So giving way is necessary for the immigrants sometimes.
To keep or not to keep, there is a question, which, however, can be solved.
Co-stated by Stephanie & Leo
In the dictionary, the work “immigrant” means “A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.” Why immigrants want to immigrate? Often, there’re some sad and ponderous stories behind them. No one wants to leave the country where he born and bred. Sometimes it’s a economical depression or a political turmoil or even a war in his country, he can’t live safely in his mother country, so he choose to leave, to live a better life in another country. When he moves to the new country, he takes the original culture with him; in the new country, he maintains his own culture, to show he’s origin.
Maybe he’s sad about leaving his motherland, so he keeps his culture strictly in the new country he lives in, as the memorial of the motherland. The new country is all right about maintenance of their culture. Everyone live happily and peacefully.

But one day, it comes to the problem. In some less liberal countries, the culture and the customs, which the immigrants maintain are less liberal than those in the countries where the immigrants now living. Some of the culture or customs are even infringed on women’s rights, which act against the ideology of the new country. Then here is the problem, should immigrants be free to maintain their cultural and religious practices if they infringe on women rights?
Immigrant culture should or should not be maintained can be well solved by mutual respect and adoption. Those emigrants are looking for better life and future; they come to the new but unfamiliar place, it is reasonable and understandable to keep their customs. Like those Muslim women who wear veil to cover their faces, they do that for the reasons blend feminism with religion. Wearing veil does not commit the laws of new country, should being respected instead. People have the right to wear what the like. However, the immigrant should give way sometimes. Say if the police ask to check the ID and unveil faces, those people must not refuse, because the police may think that this guy are suspected, they may use their handcuff and take you to have a drink in the PD office.
This is so-called mutual respect and adoption, the new country respect those immigrants and protects their rights, at the same time the new comers should cooperate with the new government. People can’t take photograph of ID card with their veil on, if that so the ID lost its sense. How can authority identify a person only by a piece of cloth and a pair of eyes? So giving way is necessary for the immigrants sometimes.
To keep or not to keep, there is a question, which, however, can be solved.
Co-stated by Stephanie & Leo













K 3710nam37 # Thursday, January 4, 2007 10:13:20 AM
I am a journalist in Vietnam, a country next to China. you made me so surprising for your deep knowlegement about many kinds of subjects. Your picture regaring your motherland much more interesting.
thanks and can we discuss st more
fitchwars # Monday, January 8, 2007 6:03:32 AM
stephaniecstephanie # Monday, January 8, 2007 6:14:56 AM