What effect does American immigration have on children?

Immigration to the United States has advantages and disadvantages. What is the impact on the children of immigrants? The following is a Chinese-American voice sharing. Let's take a look at it with the overseas immigration network! Welcome to reading.

The desire of Chinese American immigrants

Many parents in China always say that they immigrated to the United States for their children, but in fact, their understanding of the United States is very one-sided, and wishful immigration dreams often ruin their children's future.

When I was seven years old, my parents and I immigrated to America. At that time, my parents stubbornly believed that China's serious air pollution, heavy pressure on the education system, rampant regional discrimination, unhealthy customs and habits, and low general quality of the people were all the reasons for their strong yearning for the United States, and they thought that I would become? American? Will give them a better future.

Admittedly, after becoming a native of China, I really don't need to breathe the polluted air in China, and I don't need to rack my brains to recite Tang poetry and Song poetry. China people like me, who grew up in the United States, are generally subjected to more invisible psychological persecution, especially all kinds of discrimination in daily life.

When I was a child, my parents chose to speak English all the time at home in order to integrate me into the United States earlier, although my English was poor. So year after year, I forgot Chinese, but I spoke fluent English. I thought that if I could speak fluent English, I could integrate into the United States and live well in the United States, but the reality gave me a very loud slap in the face.

Although I can speak English as fluently as a white man, I can hardly integrate into the mainstream culture of the United States because of my Chinese face. When I was a child, I could still make friends of all ethnic groups, but from junior high school to high school, I was often bullied by children of other races, accompanied by? China guy? Behind it is often a slap in the face and helplessness. And because I have gradually forgotten Chinese and rarely communicate with my parents, they can't hear my heart and mistakenly think that my life is very moist, but it has never been like this.

I thought this dilemma would be alleviated after going to college, but I didn't expect it to get worse. Americans laugh at me as a China and don't want to be with me. International students in China laughed at me for having a Chinese face, but I didn't speak a word of Chinese. As a result, I, a China native who grew up in the United States, was neither welcomed by all walks of life in the United States nor accepted by my own people in China. I'm in a dilemma, extremely embarrassed. No group really wants to accept me.

This dilemma continued until I was at work. After graduating from college, because of my major in finance, I worked in investment banks in new york and Hongkong. I thought I could make a big difference, but I didn't expect it to be another struggle. Because to develop in this field depends largely on getting along with customers, politicians and investors, white people who grew up in China get along well with their children, and they can establish circles and have a bright future, but China people who grew up in the United States are different. We can't relate to the background of China in the United States, so it is a kind of hardship and empty joy.

Later, I told my parents my thoughts in various tortures, but my parents thought that if the United States was uncomfortable, it would be a big deal to return to China later. But they don't know that, unlike Chinese Americans like me, when they brought me to the United States, they inadvertently deprived me of the choice to return to my motherland. No matter how well China develops in the future, I can't go back to my life and enjoy the honor and dignity as a China person.

Now whenever I see parents who are anxious to send their children abroad, I always think, why don't they want their children to grow up happily in China and become China people? Why do you have to be in such a hurry to bring your children to a western country that looks down on China people and let them grow up in the shadow of racial discrimination? Why should the dignity and sense of belonging of children's lives be scrawled outside the door just because they want to escape from China's vital interests?

Don't ruin your children's future for your American dream.