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Both of my parents are immigrants.
But what makes our stories and experiences different is that we were born and raised in a country different than our parents, and this can cause us to be misunderstood when being viewed through a narrow lens.
He explained to me that his parents told him that refugees are people from Africa who come to the US to escape death, starvation and disease.
So I asked my parents, and they laughed a bit, not because it was funny but because it was a generalization.
Junior high school was the first time I went to school with a large number of black American students, and many of them couldn't understand why I sounded differently than they did or why my parents seemed different than theirs.
Before I was born, both of my parents began using heroin.
I convinced myself that my parents' past would be my future.
But eventually both of my parents entered recovery and maintained recovery from opioid use.
WK: This is my parents, holding the radio.
You should have seen my parents' reaction!
I remember I was about 13, glued to a grainy black and white television in my parents' living room as Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, and kids not much older than me were throwing themselves at the tanks and getting mown down.
I've got nightmare disorder, which is categorized if you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared a failure, and all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street going, "You're a failure!" (Laughter) I've got parent-child relational problems, which I blame my parents for.
His parents brought him into clinic, worried he didn't say much compared to his brothers.
And no, I did not accidentally burn our parents' house down.
Min's sister said to her parents, "In America, this bag sells for 320 dollars."
Her parents, who are both farmers, looked on, speechless.
Later, she married a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two daughters, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents.
Their parents are often illiterate, and then they come to the city, and they, on their own, at night, during the weekends, they'll take a computer class, they'll take an English class, and learn really, really rudimentary things, you know, like how to type a document in Word, or how to say really simple things in English.
Which of those parents here in the room might not lie concerning the whereabouts of your son or daughter in an investigation of a killing?
It's here now, and in our family, my son has type 1 diabetes, which is still an incurable disease, and I lost my parents to heart disease and cancer, but I think that my story probably sounds familiar to you, because probably a version of it is your story.
There's an important drive to become independent from one's parents and to impress one's friends in adolescence.
I sold that pork to my school friends' parents, and I made a good pocket money addition to my teenage allowance.
Even if I could have afforded the phone bills home, like most people in the Congo, my parents did not own a phone line.
And these are my parents.
Not the ones for your kids, but the one you had as a child, where your parents come to school and your teacher talks to your parents, and it's a little bit awkward.
It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children.
If any of the more rowdier children questioned the authority of the parents, they were scolded.
If they went exploring into the parents' rooms, or even into the secret filing cabinets, they were punished, and told that for their own good they must never go in there again.
Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms.
There were maps and minutes from meetings where the parents were slagging each other off.
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