Country Quote by Margaret Mead

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned…

— Roy Choi

One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists,…

— Hasan Minhaj

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you…

— Ato Essandoh

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it makes you…

— Elif Batuman

I'm the child of immigrants.

— Justin Lin

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just…

— Rupi Kaur

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of…

— Jan Schakowsky