27 Signs You Were Raised By Immigrant Parents
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2. You had the most difficult name on the attendance sheet.
3. While everyone vacationed in the Bahamas, you vacationed in the homeland.
4. You mastered the art of interpreting your parents.
5. Your pronunciation of certain words was (and might still be) a little off.
6. Your after-school activities definitely stood out on your résumé.
7. Your parents let you fill out your own school documents because it was just faster that way.
8. You could get endless help with your math and science homework.
But help with your English homework was limited to a…
9. Anyone in your culture who made an “impact” in America was a household staple.
10. You were always chosen to play one of these three princesses.
11. Heritage theme days were a little less extravagant for you than for your peers.
13. Your house wasn’t very popular on Halloween.
15. Every fight started and ended the same way.
16. You and your parents communicated in your own hybrid language.
17. You didn’t learn the same nursery rhymes as your classmates.
18. You grew up reading these books.
Instead of these books.
19. Your weekends were spent at Hebrew/Chinese/whatever school.
21. Your parents were dishonored when you tried to Americanize your name.
22. You were jealous of the neighbor’s Christmas decorations.
24. You got to miss school for religious holidays!
26. Your response to “OMG say something in ______!” is…
27. You were raised in the most loving environment and you wouldn’t change a thing.
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Audrey Zao a week ago#1 Like many kids, I was a picky eater. So when I liked something, my parents made it for me all the time. In hind sight, I thought it was my mom who instigated this delicacy, but I realize it was my dad, definitely dad. Kids made fun of me for my weird food, so my parents told me it was a Chinese thing, and then I told the other kids just that. Did you know that peanut butter, jelly and bologna sandwiches are a Chinese thing? *face palm* (euw)
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tracyg9 2 months agoWorld worst Irish Brogue throughout most of March .. Oh, you’re Irish, you must like to drink, Oh, you’re Irish, that explains it, Oh you’re Irish (thanks a whole bunch to the idiot with River Dance) - dance for me.. and the worst one yet .. Oh come on .. Everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day (really? serious?)
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thesarahgreen 2 months ago
#10 is true :( I liked the little mermaid but I was always chosen as frickin jasmine! I’m not even arabian, but being half colombian is close enough…
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Sophia Leijon 2 months ago
Hebrew school was my fin. I can’t understand it, but I can read it, write it, say it out loud easy. But I didn’t get twice the amount of presents, and I only missed school for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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nancyl6 2 months agoOne parent was Scottish/Maltese, the other was German. It was an interesting upbringing, but I went to a school full of immigrants so being different was kind of normal for me. Dad would say to me at the dinner table, “Never forget - you are German!” And I would die of mortification LOL.
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natusya125 2 months ago
Yeah as a Russian, I definitely had the weirdest packed lunches in elementary school.
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feistychick 2 months agoAs a child of Jamaican born parents, I can relate to some of these, especially #26. I hate when people ask me to speak patois. I’m not an expert at it you fucking ignoramus.
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Kelly Kelly 2 months ago
I love American people. I live in Canada but I visit the USA every week because they have the best service and prices and the people are lively and cheerful. I do not know what it is like to be an immigrant in the USA but the American immigrant that I met abroad were unable to live like any other immigrant, they were living in compounds. Imagine how it is like if all the immigrants in the USA chose to live in their own compounds, well that is how it is like with American immigrants abroad, they live in compounds.
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jakimovskik 2 months ago
Instead of “more traditional” punishments, my father required I do multiplication tables and pages from math work books. Average punishment was doing 1X20 up to 20x20. In my head. As an 8 year old.
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