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May 4 - May 5, 2019
He said that this really is the land of opportunity, but most Americans just don’t see it because they’re simply too used to it. They don’t appreciate it and they don’t take advantage of it as much as people who move here from other countries do.
Asian ladies will tell you exactly what is wrong with your face, in front of your face, as if they were helping you.
“Pursuing your dreams is for losers. Doing what you love is how you become homeless.”
The most important values in American culture are independence and freedom. The most important values in Chinese culture are family and obedience.
How is the authentic version so much shittier than the foreign version? I felt betrayed.
The El Pollo Loco salsa bar exemplified American freedom; land of the free, home of the salsa bar. “Take whatever you want, it’s free,” Grandpa said. I thought he was messing with me. I looked at that salsa bar in front of me like a virgin staring at a naked Gigi Hadid. This can’t be. This is too good to be true.
I learned was more than the accent itself. I noticed how crudely people treated a foreigner. The mechanic was quickly annoyed because he could barely understand me, the cashier at the grocery store avoided eye contact and the post office lady couldn’t be more frustrated trying to explain the difference between priority and first-class mail to me. This reminded me of my own struggles when I first came to this country.
no matter how Americanized I become, no matter how much Jay-Z I listen to, I’ll always be an immigrant.
It wasn’t about choosing to hang out with people of the same skin tone; it was about hanging out with people who shared the same point of view because they had gone through the same experiences.
I managed to stumble through this journey with the perseverance of an immigrant and the mindset of an American.
I’d rather try to pursue my dream knowing that I might fail miserably than to have never tried at all. That is How to American.
