Post #2

After reading Outcasts United, the book that all freshmen were required to read this year, I have become interested in migrant workers. It is very difficult for someone to live in a new country and learn a new language, let alone work at a new job. In the book, almost all of the immigrants were lower class, aside from one who had been living in America for a few years and started an insurance company. All worked for low pay, many for very long hours. Some were single parents and also had to take care of their children, resulting in very little time for rest or recreation. Personally, I cannot imagine a life like that. My father has always had a high-paying job, and has plenty of free time, while my mother has always stayed at home to take care of my younger sister and me. Although my father makes more money than the lower class immigrant workers, in some ways, they work just as hard. The big difference is education. Since my father grew up in America, and had the money to afford a college education. This says a lot about the gap in quality of education between the United States and some other countries. If Immigrants could afford to work shorter hours, they could take classes at night, at least in English, and be able to work a better job and improve their quality of life. However, since most are always working, they cannot become educated and they are stuck as a member of the lower class.