Immigrant Experience

Here is the thing about an Immigrant child, we all have different experience. We all come from different background, different economic status, different family views and most importantly at different stages of our life. Someone who left their country when they were 8 would have a different experience than someone who left when they were 15. I am one of those people who left when I was 15. I left during the 2005 election. The 2005 election for me is the 9/11 for Americans, the Derg Regime for my parents and what Donald Trump might be for my 17 years old brother. The 2005 election is how I remember my home.

Every time I think about Ethiopia the first thing that comes to my mind is leaving school because police would come and arrest and even …show more content…
I normally leave events like this full of passion, inspiration and anger that we still have to fight for social justice. However that day I felt none of that, instead I was getting mad at the absent Ethiopians. We are a very patriotic nation. We like to shower ourselves with green, yellow and red every chance we get, many of us have the “I love Ethiopia” bumper sticker. We go around talking about how great Ethiopia is. Always managing to pull out pictures we took during a vacation so we can change the poor hungry perspective other people have of us. However during this event when we actually needed to be patriotic only about 10 Ethiopians were present including the organizer and speakers. Out of this 10, five of us were college students and recent grads. It’s great for Ethiopia’s future that the five of us are interested in solving the suffering of our people. However we need more Ethiopia’s to participate. We are the voice of Ethiopia, we have the resources, and we have the freedom and the knowledge to make a difference. We have the power to pull our sisters and brothers from the hell our own government created and give them