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Adapting to The United States

One day while sitting in a shopping center parking lot, one observed and caught a glance of a group of Chinese. They were closing up their business. After observing and reminiscing on previous times, I asked, “how come when other cultures come to America, they succeed?” “Why is it harder for citizens of America to become wealthy than immigrated cultures?” Could it be that the work ethic and production that they inherited from their culture pays-off in the United States? Or adapting from non-industrializing society is easy when converting to industrialize society?

Needed for the United States

Most cultures rely on survival by foraging, horticulture, pastoralism and agriculture (Miller, 2006). They spend most of their time tending to herds, taking care of crops and taking care of their home, which includes: tending to their families. All these tedious tasks and responsibilities easily give them an advantage when they immigrate to the United States. In their country immigrants have gained leadership, partnership, obedience and discipline skills, all the skills needed to be successful in the United States.

The main cultures one usually has the opportunity to observe are the Mexicans, Chinese, Arabs, and Japanese. These four cultures are very productive in the United States. There is the Chinese with the many hair stores, and Chinese restaurants, the Arabs with many convenient stores or other franchises, the Japanese with many Japanese Restaurants and the Mexicans who would work five jobs necessary to supports ones family. After observation one notices how family oriented the Mexicans are. Mexicans will house their whole entire family to make sure everyone is taken care of.

Industrialize and Non-Industrialized

Non-industrialized society is a society that requires a lot of labor and time. However, industrialized society tasks are taken care of by machinery, electronics, or other equipment; therefore living is more comfortable than those of non-industrialized society. Converting to industrialized society from non-industrialized society is easier. The people who are converting from non-industrial to industrial are gaining convenience and more leisure time for themselves. If citizens of the United States had to covert to a non-industrialized society, it would probably be a hectic turnover for the people of the United States. The people of the

Sushi is not Chinese food and orange chicken is not Japanese food. Even though many Sakkio franchises are owned and operated by Chinese people, Teriyaki chicken is a Japanese dish. In the United States, there are so many types of Asian food that it is actually easy to confuse the different types. The fact that some fusion restaurants offer more than one type of cuisine (i.e. Korean and Japanese, Japanese and Chinese, etc.), makes things even more confusing. In addition, by narrowing the focus to only Japanese, Korean, and Chinese food, we are actually missing many types of Asian cuisine. So let’s try to unravel this diverse range of cuisines.

Indian Food:

By the way, as Canadian comedian Russell Peters reminds us in his routine, India is technically part of Asia. And yet, how many people think that Indian food is Asian food? Well, it is. If you think of curry as their main culinary contribution, you’ll see the influence of Indian food on many other Asian cuisines. Thai curry is just as spicy but not as thick. Japanese curry is thick but not as spicy. The Malays and Indonesians each have their own versions of curry as well. In India, each household will have their own blend of spices, which make up their curries. It’s not as specific a recipe as it tends to be in other countries.

Besides curry, Indians eat samosas, which are deep fried dumplings with potato, peas, and other ingredients and spices. There are other yummy carbs to fill you up like chapati and naan bread. For dessert, rice pudding flavored with cardamon is nice.

Chinese Food:

Each region in China has their own special way of cooking. With over a billion people and a huge land mass, you didn’t think they all ate the same food, did you? However, in western countries, there are only a few main Chinese styles represented in the Chinese restaurants. I’ll try to cover the main ones.

Most of the food you’ll find in China towns in North America will have Cantonese style food because most of the people who came here during the railroad building times of Canada and the U.S. were from Guangdong (Canton) province. Later on, chefs who immigrated to North America were probably trained in Hong-Kong, which is very near Guangdong. For brunch, dim sum is the cuisine of choice if you have a bunch of friends eating with you. In the larger restaurants, servers push carts of small steamers or plates of dumplings around and call out what they have. If you want something they’re calling, give them a nod and