In the essay “The good Immigrant Student,” the author Bich Nguyen, talks about how immigrant students should have two identities: “English for school and their friends and keep another for home and family” (Nguyen 460). Many people do not a see problem with this shift in identities. However, that is not often the case people can lose themselves trying to be someone they're not. In young kids this is a real problem; over Americanizing may cause them to interest in their roots and culture. Even the essay speaks about how Bich, the author, and her sister had lost so much interest in the original Vietnamese culture because they didn’t know how to read Vietnamese and struggled doing the homework that was in that language. This type of assimilation is taking away from people’s and the world's culture, such as possibly losing that language all together. Obviously that may seem like an extreme example, but it has happened to other languages and will happen