"Some immigrants reject the dominant culture in fear they will lose their own culture" (Varner & Beamer, 2011, p.6). I was born in Mexico and lived there a big part of my life, I recently became a US citizen and I am grateful for that, but that does not mean that I will forget my roots and where I come from. I specially notice it because I am from a border town. All my life I've been used to interacting with two different cultures even though we are separated with just a river, the difference is a lot. You can quickly know when someone who lives in the US is from Mexico and not only because they speak a different language but rather because the way they act, or the way they see the world and their mindset in certain things. .
"When circumstances dictate, they make the transition from one culture to another easily" (Varner & Beamer, 2011, p.11), I had to make transition without leaving who I was as a person, how I was raised, and how I see the world; I adapted. I never left my Mexican culture but I do feel I grew to incorporate a new culture into the person I am today. .
No doubt that there are elements of truth in the interpretation of the cultural globalization as a trend toward the formation of a monoculture, all cultures are hybrid in nature and are subjected to external impositions, which does not exclude the existence of own ways reception, adaptation and resistance, so it can not be said that the globalization necessarily involves a homogenizing integration or process global leveling. While there are different types of cultural adaption I don't believe that they will end up being one same culture. I worked at the first Chick Fil'A that opened in McAllen, Texas, when the restaurant first started they didn't really care if their employees spoke Spanish, but as time when on the management team realized they were losing customers because of the language barrier, so they decided to start hiring a lot more people who at least had the basics of the Spanish language.
