Going abroad is a great way to find growth, career inspiration, and great experiences, but a few people choose to study abroad or live far away their home country with the hopes of having a more privileged life. The immigrant to a new country must learn the language and customs of the new country and conform to new culture. Therefore they will transform themselves to fit in with the norms of new people. This fear and an unwillingness to lose anything are major reasons why so many people never adapt to a new environment, but we would like to see people overcome these challenges and enjoy the benefits of living in another country. Through feeling fear new things that are foreign are shown in the two readings “Two Ways Belong to America” by Braharia Mukherjee and “A Close Encounter” by Uzodinma Iweala. Having an open mind is best to encounter these fears and it also gives an opportunity for self-transformation. In “Two Ways Belong to America,” Mukhirjee describes an important event in her life. She married someone of a different nationality instead of marrying the groom of her father's choosing. She was very welcoming toward perspective in her life even though “pure culture” marriage in Mekherjee’s family was at least three thousand years old. This decision shows she was brave to do what she wants and accepted to face rejection by her family. It is clear to see that Mukherjee is more open-minded than her sister, Mira, who hopes to go home to India when she retires. Mukherjee is not only to adapt to a new environment, she gives up some traditional norms that are not suitable in modern life. Moreover, she adopted a new culture thanks to mixed Indian and American cultures together, or “mongrelization.” In the last sentence, she mentioned that “the price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation.” The trauma refers the life changes to fit into the new location,