Abdulrahman Abonayan Second draft NOV 11, 2014 Discuss the conflicts between generations in immigrant families The strong bond in the relationship of the new generation and their elder generation is a major factor in causing conflicts between the two generations. No matter how long the new generations have lived in the new land or how much he or she have assimilated in the new life, there is always a natural feeling present in every person to defend their ethnicity. The person who is born in an environment where there is a similar ethnicity population will always present the concept of kinship. However, although there is a strong relationship between the generations, it actually still causes conflicts in the immigrant’s lives. For example, in the article “ Iranian Women and Gender Relations in Los Angles “, the author shows that the Iranian parents usually try to sustain the Iranian culture in America, so they get their daughters married to a traditional Iranian guy who does not permit her job or anything. He adds that such these things are unacceptable for the Iranian women now. Which at the end the conflicts have caused increasing in divorce rate, (Tohidi. N.a). This clarify the effects of the strong kinship of the Iranian parents and their children because the Iranian daughters try to satisfy their parents and family by accepting a partner who is from the same race, while then it ended up with a divorce. The effects of the strong kinship in the immigrants life was also presenting in the documentary film “ Kelly Loves Tony “. Kelly and Tony are both Asian American. Like most of the teenagers, they met each other and fell in love. Lately, Kelly got pregnant, and she had to move to her boyfriend’s family house. Tony and his family asked her to give up her college studies in order to stay in their house and be housewife as it is common in the Asian culture. Every time when Tony’s mother asked him to demand Kelly in order to do something, he did demand Kelly to do. She faced so many obstacles with Tony and his family such as taking care of eight kids, and because of these obstacles, it all reflected negatively in their life. There were so many conflicts during the film between Kelly and her boyfriend’s family. Another major factor that causes conflicts between the generations is the assimilation that new generations have went through. Usually the new generations tend to assimilate to the American culture while the elder generations want to maintain the original culture, and this causes conflicts between them. Even if the relationships between both generations are strong, the new generation will naturally assimilate with the culture that they raised in, and the assimilating will present in their life. Things like that are not acceptable for the elder generations, and they will get angry from their children when they see them get embarrassed from their original culture. In the article “ Exposures children of immigrants”, Sruti Swaminatha.