- How can foreigners help ease the feelings of displacement with so many changes in a city?
- How is displacement in this piece of writing similar and or different to displacement today?
- Is the sense of familiarity and connection foreigners make with objects and places, what helps them cope with reality and their feelings of withdrawal
-Paola Yepez
REVISED
- In what specific ways did the author cope with feelings of displacement? Cite using the text
- What similarities and differences does the author find between Straus Park and his home town?
- compare and contrast ways in which your methods of coping with displacement are similar to the authors
3. I think that what makes foreigners cope with the feeling of displacement is doing exactly what Andre did, imagine your familiar place in your new place. Creating the connections between something you are unfamiliar with and something you are familiar with can make you feel more comfortable at that place. I feel that in a city like New York which is so diverse it’s easy to stay closer to our roots.The food and customs may remind you of home. Finally, I think we can all create a home we wish to be in. Andre in his sense of displacement was at home in Straus park because it reminded him of all the different places he’s visited.
1. One way foreigners can ease the effect of displacement is to visit neighborhoods that are from their mother country. An example would be a chinese migrant worker visiting chinatown in Manhattan. This worker may feel welcomed and nostalgic. This in turn, would make him feel better and help him cope with displacement.
1. Foreigners do make us feel that we are not the only one who left their homeland and they reminds us that we are all foreigners.