The main concept of “American Dreamer” concerns the identity of immigrants. Mukherjee says it is an “identity crisis” where “someone's identity is fixed, derived from religion, caste, heritage and mother tongue”. Because of her family's religious tradition, Mukherjee is embittered by her permanent identity in her own culture, "the surname of an Indian Hindu announced the caste and place of origin of his ancestors... a Mukherjee could only be a Brahmin of the Bengal... my identity was viscerally connected to the soil and ancestral genealogy.” In his attitude towards his own identity, Mukherjee does not want to confine himself to the Hindu tradition. He is rebellious against his own culture even if he understands that the Hindu tradition prohibits it any assimilation with any other culture. After marrying an American of Canadian descent, she had difficulty adapting to the new Canadian environment. People in Canada see her as a “visible minority” because of her race and she is not white noted that America is a promising nation of democracy and equality; however, America still has many flaws in the clash of ethnic issues. No matter how hard immigrants try to assimilate into American culture, society treats them as minority and subordinate citizens. Because they are not white, they are classified as “Asian-American.” He stressed that immigrants are trapped in “identity crisis”: a person does not know who he is in the foreign culture. He believes that to become a “real” American, immigrants must ignore their cultural memory and past. This concept of “identity crisis” is demonstrated in Jasmine, the protagonist has multiple identities throughout the novel. Jasmine left her country and went to America for a night of research and preservation of Indian culture. They find their comfort zone within their own racial group. Even though they are US citizens, they lose their sense of belonging to America. Nirrmala lives in her own little world while Professorji disguises himself from the loss of the dream. They don't know who they are and where they belong in America. A wife who still maintains her Indian name and culture and a husband who tries to adapt to American society but his ego is still drowning in his past. Mukherjee who abandoned his biological identity, exclaimed to immigrants that “dwelling in nostalgia… was cowardly” (Mukherjee 185). Immigrants should abandon their cultural memory and let American culture transform them. “Let the past make you wary, by all means. But don't let it deform you" (Mukherjee 131).