Shifting to usa need help

Fr_Chuck · Feb 24, 2012, 11:54 AM

If you want to look for discrimination you can find it, and it sounds like you are very ethnic in your thinking. How will you interact with others. Next not sure how Italians dress different than I do, Think I saw Grateful Dead Tee shirts there last time I visited. Next New York has very ethnic areas, and often you get treated either how you treat others or how you expect to be treated.

joypulv · Mar 30, 2012, 03:44 PM

America really is a melting pot of over 300 million very diverse people, and your friend found some prejudice somewhere, as anyone can anywhere. Yes, there is prejudice. I would say most of it, where it does exist, is against African Americans and some against Muslims since 911, but it's what happens in the press that gets attention, with most people getting along fine. I certainly don't think you will find it in medical school, certainly not in New York City (full of recent immigrants from all over the world), and except for some small isolated places in the country which you may never see (and not even much there), it's just not anything to be worried about. Many people are actually biased toward India for their values and intelligence and work ethic. (A few complain about India taking the phone answering jobs, but you probably won't run into any of them, and that's not going to be directed at a doctor or med student.) As for Italy, goodness, half of greater New York is Italian. Telling us how light or dark your skin is, your weight and so on, how you dress - all evidence of needless worry. I think you will enjoy being here and you are going to be too busy anyway. Welcome and good luck.

Shifting to usa need help

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