{"id":3180,"date":"2020-10-01T20:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:29:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:29:34","slug":"blog-post-10-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/01\/blog-post-10-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 10\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the chapters from <em>How the Other Half Lives<\/em> and the exerpts from <em>Boderlands\/La Frontera\u00a0<\/em>I realized how tough it is to succeed in our country, especially if you are a minority. Immigrants already have to take a huge risk by leaving our country and starting over in a foreign place, but they also often have to deal with poor living conditions. Not to mention the prejudice they recieve from stereotypes can make becoming accustomed to a new country almost impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the most intimidating of all is the &#8220;unwritten law&#8221; to either conform or get out. What I mean by this is the harsh reality that many cultures face in the United States. Despite our countires diversity, there are still many examples of &#8220;white washing&#8221; going on everyday. The pressure to assimilate is real. This can come in the form of speaking English, or following certain traditions other than those of a person&#8217;s original culture. Although our country prides itself on being accepting of all diffeent types of people, this is not always the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the chapters from How the Other Half Lives and the exerpts from Boderlands\/La Frontera\u00a0I realized how tough it is to succeed in our&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/01\/blog-post-10-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 10\/5<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}