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This 3 page paper is an analysis of the article "Two Ways to Belong to America" by Bharati Mukherjee.
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America" by Bharati Mukherjee. Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India in 1940, and attended the university there. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1961 and attended the University of Iowa,
where she obtained her M.F.A. She married a fellow student, a Canadian, and moved with him to Canada where she taught at McGill University. They returned to the U.S. and
Mukherjee now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several novels, often using this medium to explore the way in which womens roles differ between
the U.S. and India. This article explores the way in which immigrants react to living in a new country, and argue that despite political differences, family is stronger than policy.
Summary The article is very brief and says basically that Mukherjee has chosen to become an American citizen while her sister has not. Mira has remained what is called a
"legal resident alien," meaning that she is living in the United States legally but has not applied for citizenship (Mukherjee, p. 415). Immigrants to the U.S. have always been targets
of discrimination and sometimes abuse, but things have gotten worse since 9/11, and at the time Mukherjee wrote that was a bill in Congress to deny benefits such as Social
Security to legal resident aliens. It was, thankfully, defeated, but it opened up an angry dialogue between the sisters on their differing views, experiences and expectations of living in America.
Analyzed Critique The main theme of the article is the fact that both women are in America legally, but one has become Americanized and the other has resisted assimilation.
Many sources point out that immigrants arriving in America in the late 1800s-early 1900s were eager to become Americans. This was the great wave of immigrants from Europe: Germans, Irish,
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