Transcript
In a nation that preaches equality for all as part of its American Dream, children of immigrants deal with daily harassment and alienation from their peers from a young age.
The following are recollections of two children of immigrant parents of comments they received from their peers during early childhood and adolescence.
What if your name was Ming-Ming Ching-Chong?
Are you going to bomb us like those terrorists at the Boston Marathon?
Have you ever eaten dog?
Is your dad Putin or something?
You’re Chinese? You definitely don’t look Chinese. You look just white.
You must love communism, don’t you?
Does your mom speak any English?
Rampant xenophobia and nationalism teaches children of immigrants to feel foreign and unwelcome in the place they’ve called home all their lives. If this country won’t accept them, which one will?
N is…
- 21 Years-Old
- Female, Cisgender
- 50% Asian, 50% White
- Upper Middle Class
- Straight