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How does an immigrant in the 2nd generation feel?

In my opinion those persons float between two poles. On the one hand their traditional, cultural and social backgrounds, which they are given from their parents, on the other hand the culture in which they are born into and in which they actually live. There are little problems which they are faced off, like different food or clothes (in India for example the women wear Saris), but there are very important problems too, which show the differences. One example for this are the different traditions of religion. When a Muslim grows up in a liberal Christian state, he comes in a moral conflict with himself, with the liberal thinking of his friends and the traditional thoughts of his parents. Sometimes they are under pressure of their families and are supposed to concentrate only on the traditions, so they establish a border between themselves and their environment. I would feel very confused about this situation and I don’t know for what site I would decide! Furthermore I can imagine that they are very displeased with the integration in the foreign countries. And that they neither are authentic members of their native country nor in their new mother country
Float-schweben
Moral conflict-gewissenskonflikt
Supposed to-hatte erst should, klang aber komisch…
Establish a border- sich abgrenzen
Enviroment-umgebung
Furthermore-desweiteren
Displeased-unzufrieden

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