Illegal Immigrants Market Culture

Illegal immigrants have suffered several acts of violence within the past decades. I have noted that this problem occurs quite often considering if one lives in a border city. These illegal immigrants have been around me my entire life. I was able to befriend them throughout my academic years. They were able to explain their perspective in this country, and how they imagined it to be different. When immigrants first arrived, they were told that the United States was the best country in the world, and that they will be able to achieve the tremendous goal, the “American Dream”. This “American Dream” has brought false hope for all those immigrants from other countries by promising them a better lifestyle and equal opportunity. In addition to the …show more content…
J. Richard explains the theory of the market culture. As his definition states, it is “a culture in which laws of the markets economy take place of the principles on which previous cultures had been established” (Richard, 22). Richard compares the market culture with a human based culture to establish a different perspective in how the United States has decided to make its citizen revolve around the thought of money. As he explains, “Violence in many forms come from the market world and is presented as the normal result of progress” (Richard, 34). This market culture has highly influenced immigrants to seek the American Dream because the United States projects prosperity for those who seek to be involved. The market culture is highly compared to a more human based culture because we should consider the morality of the situation, and try to do things for the common …show more content…
This has caused the United States to see people as if they were just numbers, and have dehumanized them as the time has progressed. Greed has been be one of the factors that have caused problems within the U.S. Richard uses, “we can state that greed helped racism develop.” (Richard, 126) to explain how people of a high economic status have created racism to people from other races such as African-Americans and Hispanics. These greedy people have been exploiting these illegal immigrants in the United States by paying them at a lower expense. Through my own experiences, I have seen them working in places where they are hired, and are working hard to only receive a five dollar an hour payment. In Miller’s text, she uses, “Unauthorized immigrants who come to the United States each year to work in the agricultural sector, to do back-breaking jobs that U.S. citizens have shown little interest in doing, are subject to exploitation and abuse that no human being should have to endure.” (Miller, 164). Usually these are workers from Latin American countries that are seeking the chance to obtain the American Dream, and then they are faced to exploitation. Even though these people suffer through the pain and humiliation they are facing, most of them are optimistic because they are able to help out their families from their