My reaction of Friends blogs

                       My reaction to Keven's blog has an interesting story and it's really realistic. It has many details from the family and his coal mine job. His video it's very interesting, realistic and detailed. 

                       In Arshad's blog I learned many things about Irish people immigrating. I learned how bad and difficult was for Irish to immigrate. It's interesting how people when 911 happened were afraid because of the terrorism.

                      I agree with Alysha's blog, it's right that Rita was only trying to help her sister. It was unfair because of trying to helping her they found out she was an immigrant and deport her.

                      Paulette's family heritage was interesting. Her family coming from diffrent parts of Europe gave to call attention to her blog. What surprises me the most is that some of her family still lives in Cataluna Island. 

My Ancestry!

              My dad Arnaldo Zapata was born in New York and then moved to Puerto Rico by time. My mom Madelyn Valentin was also borned in New York and then moved to Puerto Rico. My last name Zapata comes from Spain. It was from a group of people who worked with shoes. My family from dad came from Spain and from mom came from Puerto Rico in Patillas, Puerto Rico.
               My mom was little living in Brooklyn, New York when one day Ramon Valentin and Cecilia De Jesus decided to move to Puerto Rico. My dad was also a few years old when Ivan Zapata and Concepcion Rosario decided to leave the Bronx and move in to Puerto Rico. A great coincidence when they both were from New York and end marrying together.
               That's when they got to Puerto Rico and both made me Raymond I. Zapata Valentin. Ancestry is a very fun because sometimes you realize you are familiar to sombody you didn't even know somehow. Sometimes surprising like once I had a best friend and by time I realize we were family. My dad moved to Guanica, Puerto Rico and my mom to Patillas, Puerto Rico. That's me Raymond Zapata Valentin with both last names coming from the same respective places, Spain.


      

Immigrant Video

Analizing this video we could see how Japanese left their country in search for better jobs opportunities and a better life. I think they did good because if they were really needing that type of life, they really needed to immigrate. People immigrating shouldn't be treated that bad, unless you really know it's a bad person. Many people got to U.S. in search of work and better life and that makes me happy because they fight to take their family ahead with jobs and many reach their goals. 

Immigration Story

           It was 1886 when I Juro Kaori decided to immigrate to the U.S. for a better type of life.
It all started when I had my family in Japan and after a time we really realized we weren't living that well. Suddenly we stayed without our jobs and money and economy was a real problem for us. As time passed I decided to try to immigrate with my family to the U.S., but when we saw we really didn't have the enough money  to get all of us there. So me so sadly took a decision for me and immigrated for the good of my family. I was very sad because they couldn't join me on my trip to the immigration to the U.S.
           It was the day and I with a group of other Japanese immigrating people went aboard sailing to Hawaii. There were some hours to get there and through the trip many of us were really immigrating with the same purpose which was looking for jobs and a better life. We all wanted to get our family with us to the U.S. but most couldn't because of our economic problems. The boat was full of necessary things in our bags and we were all  ready to take and look for a job which could pay us something. As we were approaching we were all very anxious.
            When we got to Hawaii and got off the boat people from there that notice that we were immigrants started looking bad at us. They started talking bad about us, but that didn't stop me from getting a job for me and a better life for my family. After three weeks getting up very early I found a job on a sugarcane plantation some hours from my apartment. The job was sacrificing and it was really not worth it for the amount of little money I was getting paid. If I wanted to bring my family to the U.S. and have a better life I needed to keep working with what I had. Little by little I slowly went gaining some money and got very excited. That other morning was when everything came down when they fired many of us immigrant from the sugarcane plantation.
             I was in total shock, when all I could think of was my wife and two sons in Japan. I never surrender and a few weeks later I got another job in a farm. Here I was winning a little more money and by time I had the necessary money to bring my family. I brought them and we were all really excited. My wife the started working in a beauty salon where she won good money and that gave us for our children's education.We are know very happy and still working to keep having a better life than before.

Immigrating with Japanese

            Japanese people started immigrating  to the U.S. in the 1880's. These immigrations were started just for looking jobs and employments, for example like in sugar plantations. Japanese also immigrated to the U.S. looking for a dream for better opportunities and to search for peace and prosperity. They left unstable homeland for the life of the demanding job and a chance to provide a better future for their children. 

            Journey for Japanese people was most likely to be by sailing. An example of this was on May 17, 1868, the Scioto set sail out of Yokohama for Hawaii, carrying 153 Japanese migrants. Between 1886 and 1911, more than 400,000 men and women left Japan for the U.S. Over 28,000 Japanese migrated to Hawaii.

            When Japanese immigrants arrived to their immigrated places in the U.S. their was a lot of criticism. As Japanese arrived, discrimination started to the new immigrants. As Japanese were willing to work hard for low wages, many American people were afraid Japanese would take away jobs from American people. The white people understood how a diversity of ethnicities could cause major competition and change their present success rate. As they migrated to the U.S. they experienced many difficult things like discrimination, low wages, war and so on. They migrated for new development and for the following generation. 

              I know that many people do not like for others to immigrate to their countries. Those people also need to think about the living situations those people are facing. Many of these people trying to immigrate need jobs to survive and mantain their family. I think they should allow people to immigrate wherever they want but only depending on their records and things they have done through time (criminal records). Me immigrating to the U.S. in this time would be very difficult because since most people are against it they would start talking bad about me and my family. If there's one thing I really need and is immigrating for the convenience of me and my family I'll do it.