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Getting an education is said to have a profound impact on one’s life. Not only does it shape a person’s character mentally but also culturally. Also, through schooling minorities and immigrants are greatly affected because they are forced and introduced into a new culture. This makes them highly susceptible to forgetting their roots and abandoning their own culture. Richard Rodriguez was a victim of education, although exceedingly motivated to succeed and was successful. In The Achievement of Desire, Rodriguez displays the impact education had on his own being in terms of rejecting his own culture and wanting to become like the people he read or learned about instead. In Correlation, Of the Coming of John, by W.E.B Dubois exemplifies how being schooled has negative impacts on minorities such as John Jones. He transforms form a happy, obedient boy to a rebellious, angry man wanting to change his people’s status in society. Therefore, both Rodriguez and Dubois explain in their stories that separation between the families and/or culture is unavoidable through the process of learning. I can relate to this matter because I was born in another country and forced to leave at a young age to come here for a better life through education.
Approximate Word count = 756
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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