Introduction
Immigrants’ adoption and integration of new patterns is a complex concept involving mental, psychological, and welfare changes that impact their ongoing activities. In Lily Brett’s novel “Things Could Be Worse,” Lola Brensky struggles to settle in Melbourne, Australia while dealing with the Holocaust and Jewish treatment in recent times are discussed (Brett). In “Holocaust Education and Remembrance in Australia,” Suzanne D. and Suzanne H. discuss the adverse effects and after-issues of immigration among the Jewish community and how it led to the concept that the Holocaust had a long-lasting and negative impact on subsequent generations (Rutland & Hampel). The chosen scholarly texts are relevant in analyzing the whole idea related to aspect scopes and relevance of current happenings towards the Holocaust and the persecution of the Jews. The authors bring into focus the inter-related issues touching on the span of how holocaust education and history and the experiences get to impact generations.
Discussion
Change in the environment and immigrant culture has adverse impacts on the adaptation process and how they can handle the multiple issues that arise. Resettlement into new Melbourne areas impacts Lola’s development, representing millions of others. In “Things Could be Worse,” Brett analyzes how Lola Brensky’s life gets twisted and placed in a unique environment with so many issues intertwining due to the relevance of past happenings and as she learns about persecutions directed towards the Jewish population (Brett). In the same view, she gets to experience the feeling of being a cultural misfit, as she struggles to advance her dancing while trying to get accustomed to the whole concepts surrounding the Holocaust (Brett 163). She experiences a significant disconnect with all of her family members later as she grows up while adjusting her mind to accept the persecution. Even her mother’s untimely death.” Lola had been at odds with herself for a long time. In conflict with him. Disputed with his late wife, Renia, who died when things seemed brightest” (Brett 168). Suzzane D. and Suzanne H. draw from the happenings of the Holocaust and genocide of the Jewish community to depict how one generation after another never gets to move on from its reeling effects and results. Although multiple efforts have been fronted in education to mitigate the issue, there are still undesirable events that build up to antisemitic discrimination in the school setting. The international community owes it to the human race to do everything in its power to stop acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia.
In any given migratory environment, the relevance of discrimination and poverty in continuation and developmental aspects is integral in shaping the concerned parties’ cultural, psychological, and other elements. The articulation of the concept of discrimination and poverty in the view of immigration and environmental change is well reflected in the novels “Things Could be Worse” by L. Brett and “Holocaust Education and Remembrance in Australia” by S. Rutland and S. Hampel. Lola feels the impact of discrimination in an otherwise twisted growing up, especially more due to her family’s economic status. In Australia, the long-lasting adverse effects of the Holocaust and genocide continued to manifest in how Jewish and less privileged children were treated (Brett 175). As part of the discrimination, it is imperative that it is more complicated to root out the same given Holocaust due to the familial and communal take to remain otherwise passive and silent on the topic.
Conclusion
To summarize, immigrant changes in the environment and issues amounting to persecution form a diverse and complex concept in the view of the Holocaust. Various experiences and happenings during the Holocaust reflect what is articulated in the scholarly articles. It is imperative that in Melbourne, Australia, and other regions alike, there should be a more active approach towards education on Holocaust and genocides and relevant framework policies to reduce harassment and discrimination in universal scope.
Works Cited
Brett, Lily. Things Could be Worse. Univ. of Queensland Press, 2016.
Rutland, Suzanne D., and Suzanne Hampel. “Holocaust education and remembrance in Australia: Moving from family and community remembrance to human rights education.” Conceptualizing Mass Violence. Routledge, 2021. 99-113.