Cultural Differences, Prejudice, and Happiness

Choosing to leave the country where you were born behind, simply to become an immigrant to the world, in hopes of finding true happiness and security for both you and your family, may not turn out as what you may have expected it to be. For choosing to live in a new country, truly introduces the cultural differences there is, both when it comes to what kind of prejudice you will experience, how families are build up, and what peoples definition of happiness is.

Prejudice is extremely common amongst people, since we all have an idea of how people from other countries are. A more positive word for prejudice is “presumption”, prejudice is used in connecting with negative thoughts about a different country, ideology or religion. While presumptions have a less negative origin behind them. Western countries often have a lot of prejudice for the eastern countries, that they are poor, badly educated and thieves. While they (the east) have assumptions, that has led them to believe that the western countries, have roads paved in gold, and that no one goes hungry to bed. Natalie’s mother for example believe that the Irish and the Chinese have a lot in common, since both nation have a had long periods of history, where they had to do a lot of hard physical labor “I always thought Irish people are like Chinese people, work so hard on the railroad…”.