We started off class with this quote. Kim had asked us to break down the quote into single words. I used words like sad, sacrifice, journey, relationships, family, and rejection because many of us haven't learnt what first generation immigrants dealt with. You may have come to America, but America doesn't necessarily welcome you back. I personally choose those words because it puts into the ugly truth of what it meant to be an immigrant. Talk it Out (Questions) ActivityWe broke off into of groups and discuss these four questions.
This activity focused on the generational gap issues we have in between our families and communities. Especially in the psychology side of things a parent who may have grown up in the Philippines and immigrated to U.S is going to have different mindset to their Filipino- American child. A shared conflict we experience could be our parents pressuring us into being a nurse knowing it makes money, but the child may not desire that path. Others conflicts could be identity, dating, curfew, etc. I believe we deal with these conflicts because parenting is some hard shit adding on to raise your child in a foreign country (U.S) to you is more added stress and you end up raising a stranger who looks like you. Interview with Aviva Chomsky
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