generational conflicts
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Throughout the century, people have traveled thousands of miles away from their own homeland's in search of the land of freedom and of opportunity. And for many of these people this land was America. In arriving to America, many immigrants who came from traditionally structured and conservative society struggled to find their balance in the modern and vigorous new world. The movement from one society to another is so extreme that it impels intense feelings of psychological dislocation. Thus, immigrants often experience shock and resistance in dealing with the new world culture. As well as, experiencing a sense of profound loss at leaving their homeland and the pangs of adapting to a new society. Therefore, the migration often results to conflicts between generational relationships, since the young often find it easier to learn a new language and to pick up new customs than do their parents, who merely are left clinging to their old ways. Many authors have explored the main conflicts in these circumstances.
Especially, Kim Ronyoung in Clay Walls and John Okada in No-No Boy , who clearly dramatizes the conflict which arises between the first and the second generation. Both novels introduces a fresh look at the concept of racism and bigotry that results from a tension between generations...