I. Introduction:
Subject of essay: In the past century there have been millions of people who have emigrated from a foreign land, to a country with a very different way of life. There are many non-natives who immigrate to the U.S. forcing them to compromise their cultures and therefore, assimilate.
Argument: By assimilation, many cultures opt to leave their old traditions and establish new ones in order to achieve conformity and unity amongst their fellow citizens. This leads immigrants to feel more comfortable and confident in their new surroundings, which will lead to emigration success in their newfound land.
Method by which this paper will prove that argument: I will prove my argument by supporting it with relative journals from scholarly professors.

II. Body
Paragraph I. The article, “Assimilation of Japanese women in an American City,” written by Melvin De Fluer and Chang-Soo Cho discusses the experience which Japanese-born women have had with assimilation in the United States. It states that “Japanese women are quite isolated and don’t assimilate because they don’t work with native-born Americans, as men do {246}.” This evidence shows that Japanese-born women do not assimilate as easily and therefore remain isolated in a segregated, Japanese community.
i. This is a counterargument to the thesis that shows that Japanese-born women that have immigrated to America have not assimilated so well. Therefore, these people will inevitably keep their original traditions from their place of origin leaving them to never feel total comfort and stability in their new home.

Paragraph II. Deborah Golden writes in her article, “Storytelling the future: Israelis, Immigrants and the Imagining of Community,” about the experiences that people had as they immigrated to Israel. She says that newcomers had a tough time adjusting to what the citizens of Israel expected of its newcomers. The article discusses that “Actions are being taken by the Israeli state and its citizens in order to ensure the newcomers welfare both materially and culturally {8}.” While the state is quite helpful to its immigrants, they still try to “guide the newcomers in a remaking of the self {8}.”
i. Although the citizens may come on strong to the newcomers, it will pay off in the long run to adopt these new traditions in order that the immigrants feel and portray themselves as more established individuals.
Israeli immigrants are being asked to remake themselves to fit the desire of the Israel State. By this request, just as stated in the thesis, although Israeli newcomers will be forced to leave their old traditions for new ones, they will achieve success by abiding by traditions of their new land, making an easier transition into a new, diverse culture.

Paragraph III. Highly Renowned Professors, Raymond Teske Jr. and Bardin Nelson discuss in their article, “Acculturation and Assimilation” that the two terms are not dependent on one another. Acculturation is “a process of adaptation to new conditions of life…as a result of contact with the culture of one or more societies {351}.” Acculturation is not contingent on a change in values, while assimilation very well is. “Assimilation is contingent on acceptance by the out-group {358}.” Assimilation is also a process that compromises ones internal and external self and involves change in values as well.
i. The authors state that Assimilation is a process that forces one to compromise their values and all parts of their being. One should be compromising only as much as they want to. One should not be forced to do things he doesn’t want to do in his country where he has freedom of rights. Again, just as stated in the thesis, Assimilation is something that will eventually force a culture to leave all its traditions however, if conformity and comfortableness is not what they achieve, then there is no point in tolerating those traditions to begin with.

Paragraph IV Bernard Wong writes about an experiment that he performed between Chinese in Lima Peru and Chinese in New York. This is written in his article, “On Assimilation of the Asians in the Americas. A Reply.” This experiment between the two Chinese groups took place in order to compare assimilation. It shows how Chinese assimilated into New York. Wong states that, “immigrants discard the cultural traits of their host country through intermarriage participation in institutions of the host society and adoption of their behaviors and attitudes {172}.”
i. Through controlled experiments Wong proves this quote about immigrants, such as the Chinese who dwell in New York and assimilation. Wong points out that intermarriage and participation in certain “American” events have Americanized the Chinese living in New York, which helps them modify themselves for a more united America.

Paragraph V. The article discusses the challenges that immigrants of America face. Many times immigrants come to America empty handed and illiterate as well. These two traits combined will leave immigrants to segregate themselves and leave little hope for a smooth transition into American society. Zhou claims that if children of immigrants are in school with native-born children great tension will be created. This will leave immigrated children to resist assimilation.
i. This is a counterargument for the thesis that assimilation will allow people to earn more status and confidence. Immigrants may feel uncomfortable with these new traditions and segregate themselves, leaving them no chance to ever assimilate into the American society. These Immigrants may never achieve total success when they feel as if their being looked down upon at all times.