Young Generation, Migration and Cultural needs

Young Generation, Migration and Cultural needs

Young Generation, Migration and Cultural needs

When a person migrates to a new country, from the first moment of his/her arrival, he/she faces with new challenges. The migrated individual not only should solve daily challenges but also they should be able to satisfy their cultural needs. By migration to the new country, people enter to a new cultural world. Many social rules of the new country are totally different from their home country. The person should gain new social skills to deal with daily challenges. These challenges become more complex to be solved when the person is not familiar with cultural rules of the target country. It takes a while for each individual to learn living and handling daily issues in the target society. It is this time that the person  gradually will enjoy the new possibilities to develop personally. This is not the end of our mission as an immigrant. One of critical mission for immigrant is to transfer the cultural values of  their native culture to the new generation. In several families, the new generation is born in the target (migrated) country. Obviously, the new born will lose the opportunity to interact in the home-land society. This doesn’t mean that no longer the person will be able to socialize based on his/her native cultural/social values. From first moment of the birth of a baby, young mother and father carry a great responsibility to interact with their kid in the first language. In some cases, parents don’t share same first language. For example the mother may be American and the father be Persian or vice versa. In these cases, linguistics suggest that the parent who knows the first language, talk
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Travelling to the mother-land even for a short time will also help young generation to gain positive perspective about the native culture. When travelling to the home-land, the youngster will achieve hands-on experience of living in their native country. So, they will become proud of who really are. These days because of economical difficulties, it is tough for many families to afford travelling aboard. But they are more affordable ways to
expose young generation to their native language/culture. One of these ways participating in cultural gatherings. For example, young generation may join their parents attending cultural ceremonies in different occasions. The other way is encouraging youngsters   to watch movies in the native language. The topic of the movie should be interesting for them. So that they would continue watching the movies. The final word is keep exposing young generation to the native language and culture. Not try to push them to talk in the native language but encourage them to enjoy talking in their mother language and be
proud of themselves.

About Mitra Ordibehesht

Mitra helps Ali administer and serves as the co-editor of Persionimmigrants.com. She is a bilingual linguist and interested about exploring different cultures specifically Middle Eastern culture She migrated to United States in Jan 2006. Her favorite hobby is spending time with family and friends. She works as a tutor who teaches Farsi to non-native speakers of Farsi.

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