Originally posted by mosoriire
Please, I am a bit tired of the 'immigrating equals adversity' thing. Except for those who literally had to learn english answering the questions of rude-ass immigration folks, and dont come from a country where everyone is linguistically facile...
US Census Bureau shows that a lot of immigrants who come to the US come from back grounds where their parents/family was/were substantially more educated than was avg for their country, and even for the US population...
Now, I agree that having to find work at the age of 17, working as a share cropper, helping parents with a struggling business after school, definitely qualify as adversity.
Other issues dont. So the hours I could work during my first few years were restricted. So what? So I had to adjust to terrible weather, and very unfriendly people. So what? I guess what I am trying to say is that a few of the posts here come perilously close to sounding whiny...To put things into perspective, I remind myself that if my grandfather hadnt migrated from Sierra Leone in the 1920s, I could be one of the kids that we see on the TV with the 'short-sleeve' or 'long-sleeve' (rebels routinely asked their victims if they wanted short-sleeve or long-sleeve type amputations during raids on refugee camps and other temporary habitations).
Just saying...I made a choice, and I intend to deal with the consequnces without trying to obnoxiously use it to my advantage...