Third World Country Prospective America

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From a third world country prospective America is the Promised Land where everyone can achieve goals and live a cheerful and peaceful life. People in poor countries try their best for a chance to get a visa to enter the United States. Therefore, sometimes poor people sell properties to pay for the plane ticket, and when they finally make it to the United States they spend nights sleeping in train stations till they get a job and a place to stay in. For the first generation the challenge is sizeable and sometimes it's rough to deal with, but they do it to let their second generation live those dreams they couldn't live back home. Consequently, second generation as a teenager, they do stuff that they shouldn't be doing without

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