As foreigners migrate to another country they face several challenges. Such as finding a new home, job, schools for their children, and most importantly having to assimilate to the new country’s way of living. This is often times hard because foreigners grew up their whole life being accustomed to their native lifestyle and raised their children in that lifestyle. But now they have to learn how to speak a new language to communicate with the people in that society. This is not only difficult for the parents, but the children as well when they start school. The children are forced to speak a specific language to communicate with their teachers and classmates. Although it is complicated to learn a new language, it is really necessary, especially in school. In Richard Rodriguez’s, “ Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, he shares his story of having to leave his native language behind to learn a new language and how that led to his success. But Victor Villanueva’s,“Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: Rodriguez’ Speech in Retrospect”, states how he also had to learn a new language but he did not forget his native language. Villanueva states the importance of not forgetting the native language as it is a way of identification and communication with …show more content…
Bilingual education is a disadvantage because as Villanueva states, “ I remember a brown boy among other brown boys and girls, blacks, and olives, and variations on white, and must agree with Richard that bilingualism in the classroom would have been impractical” (181). There are a variety of diverse students that go to school together, so there is no possible way to try to accommodate one certain culture. Rodriguez mentions that “[t]he bilingualists insist that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in mass society, his heritage” (338). This is difficult to do because there are several heritages among the