Essay On Immigrant Parents

Having self-employed immigrant parents I have learned to appreciate everything that life has to offer. Ever since I was a child my parents taught me to share what I have even if it is not much. For around the first six and half years of my life I lived in a small trailer park with the other four immediate member of my family alongside with four to five other people at a time. In a three room, single bath I learned to appreciate not just the things I have but the people who I surround myself with. It was a luxury to be able to live to so many dear family members and family friends. While living at the trailer park my father worked multiple jobs at a time to help make ends meet and my mother worked as a house-keeper. Ever since I can remember my parents put forth the most effort they could to create a future for my siblings and I that they never got. Learning that my parents were both brought up in fairly poor families and were unable to continue their educations proves to me how blessed and privileged I am.
Being fair-skinned I have not received much discrimination as for the other members of my culture I wish I could say the same. Seeing my …show more content…
These two items, alongside with other items, pushed me forward into the equal rights moment. Without having witnessed my loved ones be generalized, belittled, and discriminated against I would not have the activist views that I currently possess. Thanks to my parents hard work they were able to put me in a great high school that is not only academically advance but socially advanced. Most of the students at Harding Charter Preparatory High School are aware of the social injustice that minorities experience. Whether it is Black Lives Matter or Immigration Rights, the students at HCP witness the discrimination that minorities in today's society experience and wish to change something about it in hope for a better future for the generations to