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"Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming the is what makes life meaningful." This quote, said by Mark Twain, shows how challenges can really effect ones life. You can come across challenges everyday in your life. When you move to a new country, you may find yourself face with many different challenges. Three challenges that Hispanics face when coming to America are culture shock, language, and securing work.
 * Overcoming Challenges: Hipanics in the United States**

One of the challenges Hispanic face is culture shock. Culture shock is a feeling of confusion caused by being in a place you are not used to. It can make people feel frustrated, alone, and isolated. It can make people think that their home country is perfect and cause them to start criticizing the culture of the new country. It can cause sadness or depression. It can make people avoid contact of their home country. Finally, it can cause people to sleep a lot or not at all and make people suffer from aches (Heike). Plus, other factors can increase the intensity of the culture shock. There are four factors I have come across. The first one is the climate. The climate from where you originally live will be different from what you will encounter in the United States. The second one is the social roles. In America, people may seem ruder or always in a hurry. The third one is the 'rules' of behavior. Every culture has implied rules on how they determine on what is important in life. The fourth one is values people hold important in their life. These values are based on culture. Every culture has a different way they view the world. This what they believe. A culture is based on a person's beliefs. These beliefs are most likely different throughout (University of Washington). One way culture can shock someone could be the closeness of family. Hispanic families are very close knit families, so it may shock so Hispanics new to the United States that American families are not that close (Bogotastic). For example, Hispanic families live near each other, while American families usually live away from each other. All in all, culture shock is a huge challenge many Hispanics face when coming to America but, it gets easier. Hispanics persevere and overcome this sensation. One way that helps culture shock decrease is learning the language but, English isn't as easy as it seems.

The next challenge Hispanics face is learning the language, English. This language is very hard for some to learn. You see when most Hispanics come here when they are adults and already speak Spanish. Not to mention, learning a language isn't easy. Somethings can make learning English even harder. One of them is cognates. A cognate is a word that in two languages looks the same. Sound easy enough right? Wrong. There are some words that look the same but don't mean the same thing these are called false cognates. For example, embarrassed and embarazada look similar but they don't mean the same thing. Emarazada means pregnant not embarrassed as it seems. Another one is the order of subjects and adjectives. In Spanish, the adjectives comes after the noun. This can cause some Hispanics to say that the dog brown not the brown dog. Something else that can be confusing is Spelling. In Spanish spelling is pretty straightforward. The words are spelt just how they sound. In English there are silent letters that can be difficult (10 Common Challenges). Overall, learning any language is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice but, eventually, Hispanics will overcome this challenge. Their English may not be perfect, but they overcomed an extremely hard challenge (University of Washington).

The last challenge is securing work. I think the challenge isn't securing work. It is securing a job that will provide enough money for the family. Still, securing work is a huge challenge Hispanics come across when moving to America. As I mention before what is important is getting enough money so, most Hispanics have no problem taking whatever job just so they can support they family in any way. So when they get any job they will take it. Then, they have the challenge of trying to move up the "ladder" so, they can get more money to be able to support their family. Something that can make getting a job even harder is the fact that any certifications Hispanics may have earned in their home country will be hard to transfer over. On top of that most employers want experienced workers. All of this make it hard to secure work. Not to mention most Hispanics when coming here to America don't know English, which makes it even harder to receive work. Even though finding work is hard, Hispanics never give up hope and always do the best things they can do to help their family. (Nuñez, Christina).

Culture shock, language, and securing work are just three of many challenges Hispanics face when coming to America. Though Hispanics have many challenges thrown at them they never give up hope. They persevere, knowing that their family will achieve whatever goals they put their minds to. They overcome these challenges everyday and become successful in everything and anything they do. Having the perseverance to never give up takes a lot of courage. Hispanics show this courage in everything they do. I'm proud to be a Hispanic and I know that if I am every thrown a challenge, I will overcome it. = = =Works Cited = "10 Common Challenges Spanish Speakers Have When Learning English." //Rev.com 10 Common Challenges Spanish Speakers Have When Learning English Comments//. Rev, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. .
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Heike. "Effects of Culture Shock - the Good and the Bad." //Refreshed Perspectives//. Refreshed Perspectives, n.d. Web. .
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Nuñez, Christina. "The 7 Biggest Challenges Facing Refugees and Immigrants in the US." //Global Citizen//. Global Citizen, 12 Dec. 2014. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. .
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