Rational analysis of whether immigrants should go.

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For different people, at different stages of life, the problem of immigration is often the opposite. Because this is a multiple-choice question-stability vs challenge.

Here are some classic answers from Zhihu to show you the true feelings of immigrants.

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There is a simple criterion to measure whether you immigrate: whether you can let yourself and your family live the expected life on their own in the immigrant country.

My father caught up with the first wave of immigrants in more than 90 years and came to America. In the following years, half-brothers and sisters were born in the United States and became native ABC. As for me, I finished my basic education in China and went to college in the United States.

I witnessed the life of the previous generation of immigrants (fathers), witnessed the growth of the first generation of ABC (brothers and sisters), caught up with the tide of studying abroad (2008), and got the green card (20 years old) ahead of the international students of the same age.

In the eyes of domestic relatives and friends, I am an international student;

In the eyes of international students, I am an immigrant;

In the eyes of immigrants, I am domestic.

1 previous generation immigrants

My father has been in America for nearly twenty years.

At that time, in the eyes of overseas Chinese headed by my dad, the living conditions of immigrants were definitely better than those of returning home: the community was better, the income was higher, the work was decent, and there was a house and a car.

At that time, most people in China took permanently crowded buses and lived in several single-family apartment buildings. American life had a fatal material attraction to China people at that time. The goal of American imperialism is nothing more than two words-"stay."

Nowadays, this generation of immigrants has basically entered the middle class, with a house and a car, two children and a dog. They are rich but not rich, stable but not bubbling, and they have achieved their goals in those years. On the other hand, their relatives and friends who developed in China did not lose their living standards because they caught up with the development tide in the late 1990s (although most immigrants do not admit this). They are similar in terms of income and purchasing power.

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In terms of work

The first generation of immigrants did not have much ambition for the cause of the United States. You can live a rich and healthy life with the salary of an ordinary job. In the company, you don't have to crush your head or step on other people's faces. You can also live in a villa, drive a BMW and travel around the world wearing famous brands. So not many people will aim to climb to the top of the company.

The nature of work is mainly engineers, and the working years are subject to the payment of children's college education and endowment insurance.

To sum up, the work pressure is not great, and the salary is more than enough but not local tyrants.

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On the family side.

The expectation for the next generation is nothing more than learning Chinese well, going to Ivy League, playing football and entering a league. It will bear more support costs for the previous generation, but many large and small problems are handled by domestic brothers and sisters, and there is not much trouble.

Family property is generally in endowment insurance, real estate, and a small amount of fund bonds. Few people will have a large amount of cash deposits, and the possibility of bankruptcy is very small. It is no problem to travel abroad every year.

Generally speaking, the life pressure is low, which belongs to the relaxed mode.

The living standard of the middle class in China, headed by my mother, is not far from that of the American middle class, but the pressure in all aspects is much greater.

In this world, it is necessary to provide medical care and support for the elderly, to study abroad, buy a house and a car for children, and to deal with all kinds of troubles at work.

Anti-cancer, anti-eating, anti-pollution, anti-theft and anti-hooliganism. My son/daughter has to pay the tuition for studying in XX country, and wants to transfer her parents to a better hospital. Lao Wang next door bought an Audi yesterday, and the little girl who went to work today got a local gold. .........

Earn more money, worry more, spend more money and feel less secure.

2 international students

The international students I contact are divided into three categories:

Some families are well-off, studying only for gilding, and plan to return to China to take over from scratch.

Some of them come from poor families, and most of them want to stay in America and follow my father's path.

Most international students come from middle class or well-off families, and their parents' goal is the middle class in the United States. They send their children to America in the hope that they can live the life they desire. These children, however, do not have the strong material contrast when my father went abroad. At first glance, they feel that their living standard is not lower than that of the United States, and they have no personal feelings about the pressure of their parents' generation. Coupled with loneliness and visa problems, a large part of these people have returned to China.

Although some friends' rhetoric of returning to China is "parents are here and don't travel far", even if they return to China, most of them will not be willing to stay with their parents and come to Beishangguang to work hard. In fact, my idea is that supporting parents should not be the first reason to return to China now.

It takes only 13 hours to fly from Los Angeles to Shanghai, and it takes more than ten hours from Shenzhen to Jiangsu. With the popularity of videophone and WeChat, it is not difficult to contact parents every day. Living in Beishangguang and living in the United States, for parents, the sense of distance is similar.

3ABC

My brother and sister were born and raised in ABC. As the children of the first generation of immigrants, they are less utilitarian and more confident than I grew up in China. For the sense of belonging, their attitude is similar to that of children who left their hometown with their parents and grew up in Beishangguang. For my hometown (China), although I will go back with my parents, I have no sense of identity.

Although life is simple, these children are not without troubles. Compared with academic performance, physical education, and who went to college, these pressures are similar to those of domestic children.

Some parents are even old-fashioned thinking, pinning all their unfinished dreams on their children, and some children are under no less pressure than students under exam-oriented education.

But the general situation is that these children have more freedom to realize their ideas than those in China. Their development path in the United States is more diversified than that of the previous generation, and not many children even enter the upper class.

The United States is a class-solidified society. It is relatively easy to keep the middle class rich and carefree, but it takes several generations of resources to enter the middle class, and the first generation of ABC is relatively weak in this respect.

China is in the stage of class formation. There is still the possibility of class change for the next generation today, but it may become more and more difficult in the future.

4 me

I define myself as a person who comes from my hometown to work hard in a different place. Luckily, I got the account here. However, I have no house or car, and my parents will not support me after graduation. I have to stand here. An account is not enough. If you want to ask me what immigrants like me think, I can only say that, like graduates who go to Beijing to work hard, I still want a lot.

Having said that, I just want to show some possibilities of development in the United States and see if this is what everyone wants.

America is so big and there is so much business. It is meaningless to generalize whether immigration is good or not, just as you would not ask a Beijinger, "What is your development path after you have an account?" This card, a registered permanent residence, just stands on a starting line with thousands of local people in Qian Qian, that's all.

If we must talk about the benefits of immigration, we will have less worries after immigration, and we will be more confident than our peers to pursue our dreams. The United States I see is a fairly fair society. Although there is no chance of getting rich in a short time, most of the efforts can be rewarded handsomely.

Finally, before going to a place, you should think about how to live, what kind of life you want and how to support your family. Immigration cannot be regarded as the ultimate goal of life.

Finally, I just hope that those who have the idea of immigration can rationally measure their expectations, make a rational analysis based on reality, and put their reasonable chips on immigrants.

At home, people who encourage immigrants may have different motives, and they may exaggerate the comparison between countries because of pessimism/optimism. No matter how much others brag about how rich the immigrant country is and how excellent the education is, if you can't make money in the immigrant country, you are nothing.

If we can take the current property status, current income in immigrant countries and future career development prospects in immigrant countries as the first consideration, it will be a more rational immigration analysis. The more specific these considerations are, the better.

The same considerations apply to parental support. No matter how far away I am from my parents, I personally will take "whether I can support them by myself" as the first point of thinking. I think it is unfilial to repay them in the name of love, but spend their pension. Therefore, no matter how far away from them, it is my first priority to realize personal financial freedom and maintain my parents' living standards.