Week 5-Venice Santos

Connection to a homeland is crucial factor in a person’s lifestyle. Traditions, customs, and beliefs shape a person’s ethnics and way of negotiation even when it comes to their professionalism in business transactions. Nowadays a community and its ideas can spread from within its own proximity to later a global scale by displacement. Owners of certain corporations must be able to balance their time by simultaneously managing their business in separate locations or even countries while being in a whole different place themselves. In Smith’s “Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics” he says that “These migrants have neither entirely left their country of origin nor fully orient themselves to their new circumstances.” This in-between status allows people to live transnational lives of finding their places within the areas they are in.

Question: With allowing oneself to fluidly roam between places and cultures, can one maintain their own culture or fall into assimilation completely?

Michael Peter Smith. “Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics.”

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