Myriads of people stay where they were born for their entire life, but a multitude of people move for countless number of times during their lifetime. For me, I belong to the latter group. Having moved for three times, I serve as a perfect paradigm for why immigration is not a process that one loses in transition and translation. In order to pursue a better life, immigration and emigration are oftentimes considered useful.
Immigrating is an agonizing process that takes years to adjust. I was born in a small city named Johor Bahru in Malaysia, but I never really stayed there as a child. My parents moved to China to seek economic advantages when I was five years old. my parents settled in Guiyang, a city in the western great plateau with a population of three millions. my parents enrolled me in a local public school there, showing their intention for me to fit into the Chinese mainstreat society. I attended Chinese-langtuage kindergartens in Malayis,a but courses are nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a …show more content…
This time, my family gave up Asia for North America. My parents paid thyeir investments to the Canadian government and were thus admitted to Canada as permanent residents. My parents enrolled me in public elementary school again. With my English learned in Malaysia largely forgotten, I have to start from scratch: reeducate myself and "relearn" english. Demographically, Canada has a large Chinese-diaspora population that mainly composes with recent immigrants from Mainland China and an older generation from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Unfortunately, I did not take advantage from this demographic factor, my school focused no one speaking competent Mandarin to communicate with me. I spent an excruciating final elementary school year unable to even do the most basic
Immigrating is an agonizing process that takes years to adjust. I was born in a small city named Johor Bahru in Malaysia, but I never really stayed there as a child. My parents moved to China to seek economic advantages when I was five years old. my parents settled in Guiyang, a city in the western great plateau with a population of three millions. my parents enrolled me in a local public school there, showing their intention for me to fit into the Chinese mainstreat society. I attended Chinese-langtuage kindergartens in Malayis,a but courses are nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a …show more content…
This time, my family gave up Asia for North America. My parents paid thyeir investments to the Canadian government and were thus admitted to Canada as permanent residents. My parents enrolled me in public elementary school again. With my English learned in Malaysia largely forgotten, I have to start from scratch: reeducate myself and "relearn" english. Demographically, Canada has a large Chinese-diaspora population that mainly composes with recent immigrants from Mainland China and an older generation from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Unfortunately, I did not take advantage from this demographic factor, my school focused no one speaking competent Mandarin to communicate with me. I spent an excruciating final elementary school year unable to even do the most basic