Personal Narrative: My Interview With An Immigrant

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My family originated from Lima, Peru. I interviewed my Mother Ana Dietz on June 8th, 2015 at my house in the afternoon around 5:30pm. My method of interviewing my mother was very simple, I asked her verbal questions about our family history and what she remembers as an immigrant of the United States. My mom immigrated to the United States in 1987 where she claimed it was a peaceful era in the U.S compared to her home country Peru. Laws in Peru were not obeyed and discrimination was constantly a problem. She had hear about the Vietnam War in Peru but did not quite understand till she came to the United States. My mother worked at a retirement home, where she was constantly taking care of the elderly. After a while she gained very close relationships …show more content…
My mother in Peru has never experienced relationships with anyone who served for the country, her only heard and seen negative things about them in Peru. In Peru the military will hurt anyone no matter what the circumstance is whether the other person right or wrong. They abuse their power through violence. People are usually scared of the military and do not want to serve the country because of the corruption In the U.S those who served the country were looked highly above upon. A man she once meant went paralyzed not only because he was fighting for the U.S but because he was trying to protect his brother who also served in the war with him too. Because of all the stories she had heard from real life veterans, my Mom is strong supporter of the U.S army, military, marines, air forces etc. The Korean War encouraged my mom to teach and talk about it with my siblings and myself. Because my Mom talked about it so much, my younger brother decided once he graduated high school to join the U.S military. Although my Mom did not experience the Vietnam War, it still affected her in a positive way and changed her …show more content…
When my mom arrived to the United States it was very easy to get a visa to the U.S, it only took 5 years and now to get a visa it takes about 11-13 years because of the increase of immigrants. My mom claimed when she came to the U.S she did not see a lot of Hispanics around her but as 10 years went by she noticed the increase in Hispanics tremendously. As an immigrant the struggle for economic survival was very tough because most jobs only hired people who know English. Usually jobs that hired those who spoke very little English was industrial work places. Industrial work places did not pay a lot of money for the amount of work they did in 1985, my mom was forced to learn English, in order to find a better job and provide for her family. Although my Dad worked as assistant for a private investigator that was still not enough. The economic struggle was very crucial to my family because without any type of school education or knowing English there was not a lot of jobs available to her. Similar to the Great Depression there were many people left unemployed. Many immigrants who migrated from other parts of the country were unemployed and struggled economically. Many of them thought just as my Mom did they would find better jobs and live a better life (economically). They were wrong because they were unaware that education
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