I Come From A Low-Income Immigrant Family

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I come from a low-income immigrant family. My parents decided to come to California so their kids would have a better education. When my parents meet they had kids with their prior partners. This caused the family to become destructive. My siblings decided to make their own lives away from my parents. After then, we have not been family. I'm the youngest child in a family of five because of the significant age of difference, my experience was very different from my brothers and sister. When I have a flashback of when I was adolescent, I remember the conflict my siblings had with my parents. The collision style was ascendant in our household. The long-term communication, atmospheric was interrupting and disconfirming. Such as, my parents and siblings will disagree about rules they had in the house the communcation between them weren't so good. …show more content…
My dad expected that his younger daughter wouldn’t graduate. Being the youngest and a woman I was convebtional to follow the footsteps my siblings took. This experience I had with my father not believing I will graduate helped me develop an interest in school and to find enjoyment in learning. Although, this situation impacted my life; I did not have any role moles I decided to stick to my education because education is a powerful way to change the world. I took my high school education seriously because seeing my relative drop out of high school made me realize everything in life is hard in order to have a wealthy and stable home you have to go to school and earn a good education. Being an immigrant and only child to graduate in the family has shaped me to be a stronger woman by believing in my capacities and by always giving the best of

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