Spaces And Exchanges : La Inmigracion

Spaces and exchanges :

I’m going to talk about the notion spaces and exchanges. I would like to illustrate this notion with the idea of Immigration, more precisely in US.

First of all we will see what this notion means. Spaces and exchanges is the notion whose talk about geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interaction between men and differents societies.

America started out as a nation of European immigrants, starting in 1492 with

Christopher Colombus. Due to America's natural resources, the salve trade brought later

another kind of immigrants: slaves from Africa, who influenced the American culture to

some extent. At the time of the Gold rush, many Europeans tried and took their chances

to have a better living by immigrating to the USA.

Across the centuries, immigrants from all around the world came to America, seeking a

better life, and each one of them bringing their own contribution to what defines

America nowadays. So both space and exchanges were deeply involved in the

constitution of America as we know it today.

As of today, it appears that the USA remains a very attractive country: many people all

around the work are willing to take their chances there as they believe in the American

Dream: that America holds the opportunities to arise socially and provide a better life by

working hard. This is why there are, for instance, so many Mexicans trying to cross the US

border in order to get a job and workaround their way through living in order to give

themselves or their children the opportunity of making proper studies and thus reach a

better and more comfortable life. All around the world, America is seen as a country of

opportunities for newcomers: the enterprising mind , still alive in many ways, for

instance in the Silicon Valley near San Francisco (for technology), gives anyone the

chance to start out a new business from scratch and bring out new ideas to the market.

Since America is a capitalist country, competition is the market rule, so anyone

has a

chance of finding their way if their product is far superior than competitors.

Generally speaking, the main goal of the immigrants is the pursuit of happiness, by

seeking a better life. This involves space and exchanges since immigrants come with their

expertise and some specific ways of working, that mix with the American way of working.

The USA is commonly refereed to as the “melting pot”,

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