Emily's blog

  What is assimilation? Assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.  Are there any benefits to assimilating to a new culture? Assimilation could lower barriers immigrants and natives face in interacting with one another and thus enhance benefits. However, assimilation could reduce heuristic differences between immigrants and native-born workers Should students give up their cultural identity (or parts of it) when in a new environment? Why or why not? In my opinion, no they shouldn't give their cultural identity in a new environment, yes they can get used to their new environment so they can feel comfortable but they should've given up on their cultural identity just to "fit in".

 If someone comes to eat in my area, I would recommend tacos or even take them to an Ecuadorian restaurant, in Woodhaven 85th street there's a restaurant called "tropical", one of the best Ecuadorian restaurants (in my opinion) here in New York, also one of the best tacos I've ever tried is in Rockway close to the train station, the service is good and also the food I would totally recommend that place, it has a variety of tacos and also some good quesadillas. 

 The story "St Lucy's Home for Grils Raised by Wolves" was very interesting, with a lot of conflicts, drama, fights, etc... One of the girls in St lucy's Home for girls, Janette, was one of the most extraordinary girls of st lucy, she was very smart, caring, amazing, she was like no other girl in st lucy, although most of the girls hated her she was still very smart, she was the first wolf- girl to get adapted to the human culture, unlike Mirabella that she would still act like a wolve, she even bit her own sister and did other inhuman things, even tho Mirabella was very childish her sister Janette would help her improve, even if it was for Janette's own good she would still help her adapt to the human culture.  On the other side, Claudette was very selfish, she would only care about herself and not even in Mirabella that was the youngest, Janette only wanted to help Mirabella and she even asked for help from Claudette so she can clean up the mess Mirabella did an...