1. Cristian Bonilla from Honduras, immigrated at the age of 12: “Being an immigrant wherever I am, and therefore your experience will change, because your past experiences were so much different than anybody else’ here. If you were born outside the country your culture values, your family values everything else changes. And then once you are here, you have come face-to-face to the new culture that is in the United States, the American way… You are always in that constant battle of being like, who I am? Am I representing who I am as a person right, or am I just trying to fit in? Every single day, whatever I do, it is me trying to cope with am I really being myself? Or I am being what the other people want me to be… My experiences are so much
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Lauren Chin, from Juangxi, China. She was brought to the United States when she was 21 months old.
“I am second generation immigrant. I was born in China, but I was adopted by an American mom and a Chinese dad in the United States when I was 21 months-old, so I don’t have any memory of it and it is not like I lived there—I grew up in the U.S. I am from Juangxi. I have been back and apparently I am from two orphanages. It is kind of a long story and I am not going to there right now.”
How integral to your identity is the fact that you are a third generation immigrant? “I think it is pretty important because in the U.S. I find myself attracted to friend who are very diverse and aware of globalization and they may have come from nothing, because that is what Americans believe in, in meritocracy and you have to work really hard to get to where you want. When I see some people who take this country for granted and don’t work as hard, I just don’t understand it as much and it makes me really mad because they have this privilege and this opportunity to better themselves and I don’t understand why people would throw that away. This is why I work hard and my dad helped me realized how fortunate I was—because I could be in an orphanage in China right now, still not adopted. But I am lucky that I have a family, who cares about me and invests in my
Lauren Chin, from Juangxi, China. She was brought to the United States when she was 21 months old.
“I am second generation immigrant. I was born in China, but I was adopted by an American mom and a Chinese dad in the United States when I was 21 months-old, so I don’t have any memory of it and it is not like I lived there—I grew up in the U.S. I am from Juangxi. I have been back and apparently I am from two orphanages. It is kind of a long story and I am not going to there right now.”
How integral to your identity is the fact that you are a third generation immigrant? “I think it is pretty important because in the U.S. I find myself attracted to friend who are very diverse and aware of globalization and they may have come from nothing, because that is what Americans believe in, in meritocracy and you have to work really hard to get to where you want. When I see some people who take this country for granted and don’t work as hard, I just don’t understand it as much and it makes me really mad because they have this privilege and this opportunity to better themselves and I don’t understand why people would throw that away. This is why I work hard and my dad helped me realized how fortunate I was—because I could be in an orphanage in China right now, still not adopted. But I am lucky that I have a family, who cares about me and invests in my