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Using your personal experience as a starting point, discuss how the discourse, policies, and practices surrounding immigration 1) position us in relation to one another and 2) impact our ability to engage in intercultural praxis.
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The discourse, policies, and practices surrounding immigration create a sort of space between anyone of Mexican descent from others who are not. People often assume when people whose native language is Spanish and choose not to speak or learn English that they are undocumented, but when the need to know English can really be a choice rather than an essential for some and you do not need to be born and raised in Mexico to learn the culture and language. In our book we learned that migrant networks are formed when people come together because of the interpersonal ties that they have together including shared community origin and friendship (Sorrells, p.138). This relates to how you often see Mexicans associating with other Mexicans and that is because of this shared interpersonal relationship including language, culture, and shared experiences that help one connect to another. This relationship also includes shared discourses that people in this network experience. In my experience as a Mexican, when knowing someone is Mexican or when learning that aspect about their identity it creates a discourse and makes one assume that they speak the language or are from Mexico. I often get asked what I am, and when learning I am Mexican and Filipino the questions that then follow are if I speak the languages and where I am from? When I say Seattle, people usually ask again like where I was born and do not know what to say when I say Oregon. As a result, the assumptions that being Mexican is tied with immigration impacts our ability to engage in intercultural praxis because instead of asking questions about that person to know their experiences specifically we often tie a person to a group of similar ethnicities, race, or cultures in the world.
