the account that curanderismo has no scientific justification physicians reject it. A practitioner of curanderismo might even be blamed for misdiagnosing a person who has a serious illness; this can rouse more speculation about the healing art. When American society is reluctant to accept the traditions of the person who is trying to assimilate, it creates an imbalance in the person. This imbalance makes it difficult for a person to completely assimilate, thus the person partially assimilates. By incorporating the new with the traditional, a person might be able to assimilate with more ease (Lopez 336). This alienation of peoples traditions is a negative experience for anyone who is trying to assimilate.Furthermore, ones ethnicity might jeopardize a persons progression in assimilation. Throughout the history of America there has been racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is probably the worst type of oppression one might face while trying to assimilate into any society. An example of when ones ethnicity jeopardized ones incorporation into American society was during World War II (1939-1945). Since America was in combat with Japan and found Japanese to be extremely militant, people of Japanese descent residing in America were put into internment camps. In Arrival At Manzanar, Jeanne and James Houston describe the way Japanese people were relocated to an internment camp and how Japanese aliens (men) were imprisoned until the end of the war. At this time, being Japanese was thought to mean that you would betray America by sabotaging the war effort. To prevent this the Japanese were treated with belligerence. Not only were other Americans extremely hostile to Japanese people, but also they were ignorant of Japanese tradition and culture. For example, Japanese people are accustomed to eating steamed rice with salty foods and at Manzanar the Japanese there were served rice with apricot syrup as topping. Not only was the food meager b...
